George Vladimov - writer, literary critic.The most significant works of this author is the novel “The General and His Army”, the stories “Faithful Ruslan” and “The Great Ore”. What are the reviews about these books? What is the peculiarity of Vladimov's prose?
Biography
George Vladimirovich Vladimov was born in 1931. Father and mother were philologists. The future writer early orphaned. After the death of his parents, he was brought up in the family of the writer Dmitry Stonov.
Georgiy Vladimov graduated from the Faculty of Law,however, after receiving a diploma decided to devote himself to literature. In the early seventies, his critical articles became famous. During these years, the duties of the editor of the magazine “New World” are performed by George Vladimov.
Биография этого писателя тесно связана с socio-political situation that prevailed in the country in the Brezhnev era. As you know, these years were unfavorable for the work of authors who prefer to raise sharp questions in their writings.
Early Creativity
In 1960, after visiting the Kursk Magneticanomalies, George Vladimov wrote a story that caused a resonance in society. The work is called "Big Ore". In the years when the story was created, some opposition began to manifest itself among the Soviet intellectuals. It had a hidden character and was expressed, as a rule, in reading and discussing literature that did not correspond to the Soviet ideology. The program of the so-called Sixties entered the "Big Ore".
Next artwork George Vladimovpublished only nine years later. “Three minutes of silence” —that is the name of the author’s second story, which in the late sixties was already classified as “forbidden,” was fully published thirty-five years after writing. The work has a confessional character. The book reflects the routine of a fishing liner. Before writing the story, the writer worked for several months as a sailor on a Murmansk seiner.
"Faithful Ruslan"
The manner of writing Vladimova was appreciated by critics.The features of his prose are authenticity, lyricism, accusatory motives. In 1975 the story "Faithful Ruslan" was published. The story of a devoted guard of the Soviet camp was published for the first time in Germany.
The book tells how the dog guardsman on their own. About how she controls the life of some two-legs, under the supervision of others. Vladimov spoke about the tragedy of the time in which he lived. But he did it from a special angle.
Prohibited activities
The aspiration of Vladimimov to highlight the topics on whichSoviet society was dangerous to speak, led to the fact that he was expelled from the Writers' Union. Literary and social activities in this, of course, is not over.
The writer in the late seventies ledorganization banned in the country. This association was called Amnesty International. Like other Soviet authors who were reluctant to publish at home, the hero of this article published his writings abroad. And in 1982, in order to avoid arrest, the writer George Vladimov emigrated.
It is worth paying more attention to a book that is alreadymentioned in the article. In 1994, George Vladimov completed the writing of the most famous work. "The General and His Army" - a sensational novel. Critics are still arguing about the credibility of the facts that formed the basis of this work.
"The General and His Army"
For this novel, the author was awarded Bookerawards. Before awarding the award, literary disputes were held around the book. They were caused by the fact that in the work of Vladima the war was illuminated from an unusual point of view. One of the critics noted that the opinion about the book is wrong. The impression that the novel’s actions take place in the Soviet Union in the early forties is deceptive. After all, the history of the national unknown to the general named Kobrisov. The cities of Myryatin and Predslavl in the USSR have never been either. Roman Vladimova, in the opinion of the critic O. Davydov, in general, cannot be called historical.
The work "The General and His Army" depictspsychological problems, addictions and prejudices related to the fate of the author. Military realities, which are present in the novel, play the role of a certain entourage, setting off events in the writer's life that are not connected with the Great Patriotic War.
According to Oleg Davydov, to condemn Vladimov forusing invalid data is impossible. The novel The General and His Army is not an historical work, but rather an autobiographical one. What questions did the author raise in a sensational book?
Hero of the novel is the commander in chief.Kobrisov made a certain offense for which he must be punished. But at the last moment the situation changes. His action was a success, and he happily returns. That is the plot of the book. Her idea is that there is a higher court. And this, according to Davydov, is the main idea of the book. Military events are just the background with which the writer expressed his idea. However, in the book there are both fictional characters and real ones.
The content of a critical article Davydov,dedicated to the work of Vladimova, is reduced to the fact that the historicity in the novel is not and can not be. Nevertheless, the positive feedback from readers is based on a peculiar depiction of military events.
Germany
In emigration, the writer continued the literary andsocial activities. He worked in the magazine “Grani” for two years. During the period of perestroika, his works gradually began to appear in domestic magazines.
In 1990, Vladimov restored the Sovietcitizenship. At the beginning of the two thousand years he lived in the legendary literary village in the south-west of the capital. George Nikolayevich Vladimov died in October 2003. The writer was buried in Moscow, at the cemetery in Peredelkino.
