Not a day without a line. Stories, memoirs, articles
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Not a day without a line. Stories, memoirs, articles
19.99 €
Yuri Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960) - Russian Soviet writer, poet, playwright - was the first to speak in his novel "Envy" about the generation of intellectuals who turned out to be "superfluous people" in the new world. He wrote "in a completely new way", was able to "intertwine drama and irony, pain and joy." "Words, words, words..." - so wanted to call Olesha his "tale of himself," because words ... lines, meanings - the most precious thing for the poet. He worked on it in 1980-1950s, at a time when society was not close to the thoughts of the writer-intelligent. The text, conceived by Olesha as fragments, "shards" of his life, was published in full under the title "Not a Day Without a Line" in 1965, after the author's death. In these fragments Olesha, who feels his belonging to two eras at once, writes through the prism of personal memories of the image of the new world - with its revolutions, wars, technology - and comprehends his place in it. "Not a day without a line" - not diaries in the usual sense of the word, it is the exposure of thoughts arising in the mind of a brilliant writer, "an attempt to restore life", to see the images that unfold around: "How rarely do we stop attention to the world!". Reading Olesha's prose. smell the grass, feel the air, soaked with light, notice the multicolored life after the writer. The book also includes autobiographical stories, memoirs about I. Ilf, A. Tolstoy, E. Bagritsky and articles reflections on K. Stanislavsky, V. Mayakovsky, C. Chaplin and H. Wells.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series A personal century