Valentin G. Rasputin - one of the mosttalented and famous writers of modern domestic literature. Fundamental to many of his works is the topic of perception of morality today.
Повесть "Последний срок", краткое содержание which we bring to your attention, the creator himself called in his work the main work. He began to work on it in 1969, and in 1970, in the magazine "Our Contemporary" was published the work "Deadline".
Summary: the beginning of the story
Without opening her eyes, without movement lies the old woman Anna.Life in her is still warm, but the woman herself is almost frozen. Understand that her daughters, bring a piece of a broken mirror to his lips. It is fogging, therefore, the mother is still alive. But Varvara, one of the daughters, believes that you can already mourn, "echo", and does it selflessly, first by the bed, and then at the table, because there it is more convenient. Lucy, another daughter, sews at this time a mourning dress, tailored while still in the city. Stretches the sewing machine to the beat of the sobbing of Barbara.
Arrival of children at the funeral
У Анны было пятеро детей.Her two sons were killed, the firstborn who were born one for God, and the second for the king. Barbara came to say goodbye to her parent from the district center, and Ilya and Lucy came from provincial towns nearby.
We continue to describe the work "Lastterm ". The following further events constitute the summary. Anna is waiting for Tanya to arrive from distant Kiev. In the village, next to her, Mikhail was always with her daughter and wife. Children gathered around the old woman the day after their arrival, to respond to the resurrected mother, to her strange rebirth.
Ilya and Mikhail get drunk
Ilya and Mikhail, having dragged the boat, cannot decidenow what to do. Compared with the upcoming event, everything else seemed trivial, and they toiled, passing through every minute. Almost without snack, the sons get drunk, huddled in the barn, have a snack only on products that Ninka, Michael's little daughter, carries for them. This circumstance provokes the legitimate anger of women, but piles of vodka give a sense of celebration to two brothers. Mother, after all, is alive. They no longer understand, not paying attention to the girl who collects the half-filled and empty bottles, which thought they want to drown out this time. Perhaps the fear of knowing that their mother will soon die. He is not like other fears, just worse, because it comes from death itself, which seemed to have noticed all of them in the face and would not forget them.
The work "Deadline" continues.A summary of further events is as follows. Feeling nasty the next day after drinking, the brothers are sober again. Ilya and Mikhail do not know how to work. They never knew any joy except from drinking. General work happened in the village, where once they all lived together - avid, amicable, sonorous, with disagreement of axes and saws. She was in the spring, in the season of harvesting firewood. But now people are leaving for the city, a collective farm is falling apart in the village, there is no one to grow and feed cattle.
Daughter Lucy remembers the old life
City resident Lucy, remembering his old life, withwith great joy and warmth he remembers Igrenka, a beloved horse that was very weak and eventually died. Many dragged Igren, but not mastered. Lucy, wandering through arable land and the fields around the village, realizes that she does not choose herself where to go, but some kind of force, outsiders, living in these places leads her. Life seemed to come back, because Lucy lost something valuable, necessary, forgot something without which it is impossible ...
Anna is recovering
We continue to describe the summary of the book."Deadline". While the children are reminiscing and drinking, Anna, having eaten semolina, specially prepared for her, invigorates more and goes out onto the porch. My friend Mironih visits her. Anna grieves that Tatiana is not among the children who have gathered by the bed, Tanchora, as the old woman calls her. She was very different in character from the sisters. Her temper was somehow special, joyful and gentle, human.
Old woman decides to die
We describe further events, their brief content."Deadline" Rasputin Valentine continues as follows. Anna decides to die, without waiting for Tatyana, since there is nothing more to be done in this world and death has to be put off to anything. While the guys have gathered here, let them carry out, bury them, as is customary among people, so that later they will not return to this concern. Then, maybe Tanchora will come ... Many times the old woman thought about death, she already knew her as herself. In recent years, they had become girlfriends, the old woman often spoke to her, and death listened to her whisper, sitting aside, and sighed knowingly. They agreed that Anna would fall off at night, first, like all people, she would fall asleep in order not to frighten death with open eyes, but she would quietly press herself, remove from the woman a mundane short sleep and give her eternal rest. So it turned out.
Finishes his work "Deadline"Valentine Rasputin. Summary was presented in our article. It does not describe the details, does not give an idea about the characteristic features of the work. This story, meanwhile, is very interesting. We recommend therefore to refer to the work itself, to familiarize yourself with it in the original. We tried to convey only a brief content. “Deadline” (Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich) is a work, having read that, you will not remain indifferent.
