Povest' Jama A.I.Kuprin nachal pisat' v 1909 godu i zavershil rabotu cherez shest' let. Kniga o zhizni prostitutok vyzvala skoree osuzhdenie, chem sochuvstvie ili ponimanie. Avtora obvinjali v beznravstvennosti i chrezmernom naturalizme. Odin iz geroev Jamy govorit: ...Nashi hudozhniki slova - samye sovestlivye i samye iskrennie vo vsem mire hudozhniki - pochemu-to do sih por obhodili prostituciju i publichnyj dom. Pochemu? Pravo, mne trudno otvetit' na jeto. Mozhet byt', u nih ne hvataet ni vremeni, ni samootverzhennosti, ni samoobladanija vniknut' s golovoj v jetu zhizn' i podsmotret' ee blizko, bez predubezhdenija, bez gromkih fraz, bez ovech'ej zhalosti, vo vsej ee chudovishhnoj prostote i budnichnoj delovitosti. Ah, kakaja by jeto poluchilas' gromadnaja, potrjasajushhaja i pravdivaja kniga. Kuprin sumel sozdat' knigu, dejstvitel'no potrjasajushhuju svoej pravdivost'ju, i posvjatil ee materjam i junoshestvu.
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