The virtual age is changing people. The real world gives rise to many reflections in it. Man hides the name with pseudonyms. Real life stories, reflected in a crooked mirror of fantasy, generate pseudobiographies. In the world of literature, it’s welcome to live like creating. It was in this way, incognito, that the poetess Kustovskaya Maria Viktorovna, who writes under the pseudonym Dana Sideros and nickname LLLYTNIK, published her works on the LIVEJOURNAL website. However, a young lady - "Joker" often pleasantly surprises her fans with lines of deep, original, philosophical.
Two biographies
In 1985, in Bulgaria, in the small coastal town of Beloslav, a virtual poetess Dana Sideros was born. Her biography is connected with the family moving to the USSR. Then Dana was only 2 years old. Since 2003, the girl lives in Moscow. He has been writing poetry since the 90s exclusively in Russian. Dana Sideros worked as a graphic designer in the now closed almanac "End of an era." So, the mission of the young virtual Bulgarian is to hide for the time being the fact that her real person from Russia writes poetry.
In the same 1985, when Coca-Cola entered the USSR market with its products, Madonna released the Like a Virgin CD, and Secretary General Gorbachev for the first time spoke the word “perestroika” in Kazan; another girl was born in Kazan, Maria Kustovskaya.
The poetess graduated from art school and still works as an illustrator. In 2008, she published her first selection of poems. Criticism noted her "surprisingly original sense of language." She is a laureate of the Nova Poetry Prize, a participant in poetry concerts and festivals. In 2014, Maria was awarded the Debut Prize in the Dramaturgy nomination.
Answering questions from correspondents about the fate of the “split personality”, the poet, to the delight of the fans, decided to continue to use the pseudonym Dana Sideros, without stopping the publication of new items in LIVEJOURNAL.
Who is she?
Maria is a man of safety and writing from the heart. In this way, she is close to her readership. She is a character of the hero of our time, a girl who came to "make herself" in the metropolis. The poetess is not attached to various kinds of mercantility, preferring the level of poetry to regalia.
Ironic about the projection of Goethe’s famous quote on himself, that he is terrible who has nothing to lose, Mary claims that this is exactly what she is.
The personal position of the creator, who does not destroy his talent in the pursuit of the fetish of fame, is today the only honest one for the acting poet. True recognition itself seeks out worthy ones. The publication of collections for Maria Kustovskaya is not an end in itself, but a consequence of creativity.
Artwork - Business Card
In literary circles, they started talking about her when the general public became aware of one of her piercing poems. Critics remembered the author's presented name - Dana Sideros.
From such verses goosebumps run. There is imagery here, a three-part foot with the first stressed syllable (dactyl), it seems, falls into the beat of the reader's heart. What a piercing start to this composition! It author-original raises the theme of children of the indigo generation and parents - mundane, rooted and zombified by a difficult life, numbing to earn their daily bread.
Each parent should hear this verse, open a video clip declaring: “Dana Sideros“ Children leave the city ””, and listen carefully as a young woman, the author of the work, reads it with inspiration.
For thinking listeners, it will not tell about the physical escape of children (although this, unfortunately, happens), but about their categorical rejection of the morality of the older generation and their lifestyle.
Maria Kustovskaya, a poetess known as Dana Sideros (photo below), brings the idea of a poem to her listeners, on the only true level - intuitive, which is revealed through metaphor.
This is exactly the bitter truth that shockes many parents. It says: for the structure of children's lives, the logic and experience of seniors in the 21st century ceased to be primary.
The indigo generation is higher than their level of intelligence, they do not need the experience of their fathers as a roadmap for life, but only as an additional guide, nothing more. The elders should come to terms with this and recklessly not be in a hurry to “break the knee” of the personality of their children.
Second collection, first verse
Her first collection, "The Jokes Are Over," was remembered and loved by the readers of the subtle and felt rhyme of the poem "Orpheus."
An event in the culture was the publication of the next collection on behalf of Dan Sideros "The Apprentice of the Fool." The title of the work was chosen to be underlined by the safe, but Kustovskaya fell into their eyes, not presenting an eyebrow, presenting themselves in a new way to the poetic community. It includes works that have long been parsed on the Internet by her fans for quotes.
Opens his poem "Fifty", which sounds like a sentence to the fifth race ("fathers"):
The lines of iamba say that Evil and Good in the world are 50 to 50, the contrast between being and existence sounds. Bitterly, on the contrary, there is a statement of the abominable existence in society, which has not developed generally accepted moral principles, and has not educated its citizens. Dana Sideros speaks about all this, again, intuitively, her metaphors of cutting and relief, like Vrubel’s brush.
The author does not give any recipes for the "recovery" of the social environment, it would be too vulgar and dishonest on her part as a poetess whose task is to make the reader realize: after all, one cannot, after all, run away "to other cities" all my life!
Maria Kustovskaya invites people scurrying around, rushing between Good and Evil, to finally stop their flight and look into the eyes of truth, to be horrified by the ulcers of society. After all, all the harmful manifestations of human nature: greed, deceit, cruelty - are not innate. We came to such an ugly existence (not being, by no means), having clogged the brains of children with unnecessary trash instead of education. And now we are reaping dividends in the form of sociopaths from generation to generation. After all, Makarenko warned that education should go one step ahead of education.
Further about the "Apprentice Fool"
And this is only the first work from the collection! However, his subsequent poems do not disappoint the reader. In one of them, Dana Sideros prays to the Lord to do something with the state’s depersonalized industrial and institutional machine “with incessant mouths”, “ingrown handsets”, with an atmosphere where depersonalized people are reduced to screws, deprived of the possibility of creativity.
These words sound like a revelation, because it is no secret to anyone that modern society and the so-called "democracy" have long and thoroughly become outdated. The existing model, in fact, more than two hundred years. Media moguls make him an untouchable “sacred cow” because they are paid for it, and corrupt politicians do not even try to create something new. Today, lagging behind the demands of civilization, the division into “right” and “left”, attempts to rule the world with the help of competing parties.
Let's think again about the metaphors that are signed - Dana Sideros. Poems are explicitly addressed to all mankind (“there are billions of us”). Indeed, it is high time to wrap a wind-up barrel organ with a flawed world order, pumping money into the pockets of gray cardinals.
After all, our mighty civilization is already capable of real miracles today. And at what pace society is developing now! If any of us built an ideal society, then it would be adequate to progress by five years, and then again would become a straitjacket for the new generation.
Scientists of the American Venus project have calculated: now give up all governments of their power and erase all borders on the earth - in just a decade and a half, you can create one prosperous civilization across the planet! What a consolation it would be for all people! In a word, it is not for nothing that Dan asks: “Lord, could you do something with them?”
Other verses of the collection
However, the poetess, writing under the pseudonym Dana Sideros, captivates her readers not only with thoughts about the future. The author Maria Kustovskaya about the present does not create suicidal and soothing poems. Indeed, in the world around us, not only dope, but also hypocrisy and hypocrisy, have been stored up for a hundred years.
A little pirononiziruyte about the third power. Moreover, the above verses, in part - about her. The fact that the human judicial system is far from true justice was said, moreover, independently of each other, by the ancient Greeks and Indians. Moreover, both of them identified those who interpreted intentionally confusing legislation as sinners and defined them in the future as hell. Has it become fairer in our time?
“It's time to say the words” - such a non-trivial idea is expressed by the poetess. What is behind her? Let's try to explain, because there is a deep meaning behind this.
The problem was once exhaustively written by Fyodor Tyutchev: "The uttered thought is a lie." Indeed, for the most part, people do not express their true goals and desires with words, but hide them. Wisdom says that at the beginning of creation there must be a Word. Obviously, it should not be false. People of the sixth race will definitely have to overcome this.
Dana Sideros. "Wall of the living." Plot plot
Talking about Maria Kustovskaya only as a poetess would be incorrect. In her creative portfolio, there are prose developments, and a published play called The Wall of the Living. It senses that eternal that should not be trampled by a civilization: spirituality, which allows people not to forget that they are people.
This touching work plunges us into the mystery of human existence. Let us retell its summary. In a small town lives Thais's grandmother and her grandchildren - twenty-year-old Ksenia and her older brother Anton. It so happened that their mother died. They also have an uncle, the son of Taisa’s grandmother, Vladimir, who lives on the other side of the country.
The first scene of the play takes place in a cafe where grandmother and grandchildren are invited to the wedding of their cousin, second cousin Ksenia - Lera. In the cafe on the walls hang portraits of artists. Ksyusha notes that on one wall - the artists are alive, and on the other - the deceased. She clarifies her hunch with the director of the institution, dressed in "trousers and a gray shirt out of the blue." He, smiling, says that such an order, indeed, he introduced. At a wedding with my grandmother, there is a clouding of consciousness, she cries loudly, telling others that she is at the wake. Her grandchildren are taking home.
Man is revealed before death
Thais's grandmother felt she was about to die. She spoke the day before about this to her friend, the neighbor Paradise, who advised her to fasten herself and wait until her son Vladimir arrived. However, he, promising to visit his mother, does not keep his word.
Taisa begins to have problems with consciousness and memory, she imagines herself young. At first the attacks are temporary. She is hired by a nurse - the soulless, unpleasant, elderly, but strong woman Irina.
Doctors say that grandmother Taise has only a few days left to live. Ksyusha decides to call her uncle Vladimir again, to come, say goodbye to her dying loved one. However, he shows laziness of the soul, not eager to leave his house, his comfort zone. Then from the lips of an indifferent, loving grandmother Ksyusha in excitement break out the words that are worth it to be quoted.
For these days, Taise for some time seems to be a nineteen-year-old girl, then a ten-year-old. A quiet, kind, silent grandmother surprises her grandchildren, who are only now learning about her difficult biography. Lost in time, she again experiences in the eyes of Ksenia and Anton the events that she experienced: Stalinist repressions, arrests, punishment of guards, poverty. She again suffers the hardships of war: bombing, the death of her military husband at the front, hunger, empty tea without sugar ...
Finale of the play
Ksenia managed, however, to reach out to the soul of her uncle. He came and said goodbye to mom. The family drama showed a well-known truth: if trouble happens to a loved one, each of his relatives shows what he stands as a person.
The play ends with commemorations taking place in the same cafe as the wedding. Ksyusha replaces the portrait of a living actress with her grandmother in her youth.
After the wake, the owner of the cafe notices this, however, thinking, leaves a portrait on the wall.
Metaphors from Dana Sideros
For lovers of poetry, one-touch lines of the poetess and half-turn awaken vivid, memorable images. “Poplars sentenced”, “ridges of leather bindings”, “shelter for homeless books”, “censer - father’s belt”, “happiness is always silly and clumsy” - such business cards are left to their readers by Dana Sideros.
Her poems are melodic and make it possible to vividly present all this. Everything created thanks to brightness and uniqueness does not go away from memory!
Conclusion
It’s nice to realize that in our busy days, people like solid, heartfelt modern literature. This is evident in the number of responses in LIVEJOURNAL, which are bestowed with warmth and thanks to Dan Sideros. Reviews are very important for the poetess-demiurge, creating their own world in them, already today ready for evolutionary changes and longing for them. Therefore, dear readers, do not skimp on them with kind words that inspire.
In the still small but capacious poetic world of Maria Kustovsky there is a piece of her soul, inspiration, nerve. It is attractive, you can go there for soul-touching rhymes, as if for spring water. Her plays also turn out. I would like to see those of them written "on the table" soon delight fans of her work.
Good luck, Dana Sideros, the joy of creativity and female happiness! You are not one of those poets for whom silence is gold, do it!