Аннотация: Paustovsky, Trifonov, the novel "Students", the Stalin Prize and a beautiful actress. A literary story.
Paustovsky, Trifonov, the novel "Students", the Stalin Prize and a beautiful actress. A literary story.
Yuri Trifonov sometimes recalled that a Cossack lance [cosaque pique] stood in his father's office.
Quite an exotic item.
You won't achieve a literary victory with such a lance.
Yuri is going to Paustovsky's seminar. To the Literary Institute.
A useful seminar!
During the break, a buddy (from the institute) came up to Trifonov:
- Yuri, let's go read a great thing - our teacher wrote. For now, it's a draft. But it will become a story.
They come to their favorite window sill.
The comrade quickly read out loud the typewritten text over several pages.
Lenya Bobrov and the construction of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir were described.
Lenya Bobrov appears naturally on the pages of the story. He studied at the River School. And what was before the School? Where did he grow up? Where was he born? Where and by whom was Lenya brought up? For very curious readers, a scene of an educational conversation between a teacher of river navigation (academic discipline), the old captain Eremenko, and Lenya has been introduced.
Thus, Lenya is on a train and is surprised at the flow of freight trains heading towards the construction site of the dam.
And here is the construction site. This is not a land plot, but a small town.
Here everybody can get confused.
So that no one gets confused, the author does not overload the story with characters. Lenya collaborates with Matveychuk and Arutyunyan. Three main characters is not so much. The reader will not be confused.
The author also makes the Don River a separate character. A very self-willed, independent hero. But he has to obey.
Lenya performs a heroic deed, in a storm he sails on a rowing boat and organizes the repair of equipment that has failed.
After his little feat, Lenya falls asleep under a portrait of Maxim Gorky, placed on the wall.
A great story.
- You understood!? - a friend from the institute exclaims admiringly. - This will be the story "The Birth of the Sea" - about the construction of the Volga-Don Canal!
Some powerful flywheels are turning in the mind of Yuri Trifonov.
'Here, it turns out, how and what to write about!'
Trifonov begins to write the novel "Students".
He even himself is surprised: the novel is published almost without difficulty. This is his book - his, written by inexperienced author! Huge readership!
Something fantastic is happening in the life of Yuri Trifonov. He receives the Stalin Prize and marries a beautiful actress from a famous theatre.
Of course, it is not always possible (in a new situation) to indulge in memories of the father. All the more strange the Cossack lance seem for a successful writer - the pike, that once stood in his father's office.
You can't win with a lance in literature. Thanks to the teacher and to Lenya Bobrov ...
June 3, 2022 18:32
Translation from Russian into English: June 4, 2022 06:30.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Паустовский, Трифонов, роман 'Студенты', Сталинская премия и красивая актриса. Литературный рассказ'.
{ 3034. Паустовский, Трифонов, роман 'Студенты', Сталинская премия и красивая актриса. Литературный рассказ.
MMMV. Paustovsky, Trifonov, the novel "Students", the Stalin Prize and a beautiful actress. A literary story. }