Kataeva biography

Kataev Valentin, despite the rapidly conquered fame and reputation of a great writer, Kataev wrote his best works after 60 years. It was then that he gained depth and sensitivity that struck his contemporaries and forced even skeptics to recognize a great talent for the writer. His father Pyotr Vasilievich Kataev came from the spiritual estate and worked as a teacher, and the mother of Evgenia Ivanovna, in the girlishness of Bache, was a general's daughter.

She died when the future writer was going on for the seventh year. In childhood, Valentin and his younger brother Eugene, the future co -author of the famous dilogy “Twelve Chairs” and “Golden Calf”, instilled a love of good literature. Pushkin, N. Gogol, A. Koltsov, T. Shevchenko formed the tastes of Kataev and forever remained among his favorite authors. On the other hand, Kataev’s tongue was given by a unique flavor and recognizable originality of the Odessa dialect with its fragments of Romanian, Greek, Yiddish, thieves' jargon.

In the year, Valentin Kataev entered the 5th Odessa gymnasium. He studied mediocre, but poetry was the main enthusiasm of the teenager. By the year, Kataev published at least 25 of his poems in Odessa newspapers. He entered the “Circle of Young Poets”, where he made friendship with Yu. Olesha and E. Bagritsky, and before the war he met I. Bunin, who was often in Odessa.

He considered the last Kataev until his death as his teacher. The First World War flashed in August, the young poet’s life changed dramatically. In the year, he quit his studies and at the very beginning of next year he volunteered for the front. There, a recent gymnasium student proved himself a real soldier, courageous and persistent. First, in artillery, and then in the infantry, he rose to the warrant officer the idea of ​​the lieutenant’s title remained unrealized, was poisoned by gases, wounded and controversial, awarded two soldiers' St.

George Crosses and the Order of St. Anna of the IV degree. Kataev described the trenches of those years in his late books, mentioning the smallest details gleaned from his own notebooks - GG. Life during the Civil War still remains a large white spot in Kataev’s biography. According to indirect facts, hints, reconstruction of events, it is possible that he served with the whites, and before that, in the Ukrainian army, hetman P.

For obvious reasons, the writer himself did not want to advertise such an uncomfortable past in the Soviet regime. In the year, Kataev was sick with typhus, spent several months in the Odessa Cheka on suspicion of an officer conspiracy, after which he composed poems and feuilletons for the Odessa branch of the Russian Telegraph Agency. In the year, he moved to Kharkov, and the next year to Moscow.

It was mainly in the capital that the literary career of Kataeva unfolded. He wrote humor, feuilletons, sketches, convicted Nepa Nepa, small crook, impassable philistinism. Among the friends and acquaintances of Kataev, S. Yesenin, M. Zoshchenko, M. Bulgakov, V. The first “Big Form” of Kataeva became the play “Sever”, but real success came only in the year with the Vaudevil “Circle Square”.

For many years, this performance was part of the repertoire of domestic theaters. Realities x In the year, Kataev created the industrial novel “Time, forward! But the greatest luck of the decade was, of course, the romantic story “Lonely Sail White”. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a military correspondent, wrote many essays, articles, stories about the heroic struggle of the Soviet people.

The story “The Son of the Regiment” - one of the brightest and life -affirming books, came out of the press. In the post-war period, the Yunost magazine, which was created in the year by Kataev, along with the New World, under the leadership of A. Twardowski, played a crucial role in the socio-literary process, and formed the worldview of the sixties during the thaw. On the pages of Yunost, largely thanks to the chief editor of the magazine, a whole galaxy of young talents - A.

Voznesensky, E. Yevtushenko, B. Akhmadulina, V. in the middle of the XG, declared themselves. Valentin Kataev in a new way opened a reader audience. For two decades, he created a series of lyric-philosophical memories-from the "blind well" to the "dry estuary"-written in a completely different style from socialist-realism, which the writer himself ironically called "movism" from Franz.

In these works, in an artistic form, he comprehended his experience in a witness of three wars and three revolutions. Outwardly, Kataev’s life after the war proceeded quite safely: he lived in the country in Peredelkino, possessing all the privileges of the venerable writer - glory, large circulations, recognition of merit. He became a gentleman of seven Soviet orders, received the Stalin Prize in the year, and in the year he was awarded the highest rank of Hero of Socialist Labor.

The work of Valentina Kataev on his writer's path Kataev passed several important routes. He began as a poet, which in one way or another was reflected even on his late prose - bright, aphoristic, “Bunin”. In the xKataev shone like a newspaper: sharp feuilletons and witty essays nominated him into a number of the best Moscow journalists of the NEP. As a playwright of Kataev, who adored the theater, is known primarily as the author of the “embezzlement” and “squares of the circle” - his early things.

And although the plays were not his strong side, he continued to work in this genre until the middle of the X. The variety of artistic capabilities of Kataev demonstrated in the x. The industrial and industrial novel “Time, forward! Prokofiev composed based on the book one of his best operas. The top of the x In X - x Kataev completely changed the rhythms and angles.

The manner of the presentation of the late Kataev was compared with the eye of a dragonfly, who could see at the same time in different directions. He was inherent in the tamping and mosaic of writing, condensed imagery, and at the same time - the materiality and density of the world. Kataev’s later books - “The Grass of oblivion”, “A broken life, or a magical horn of Oberon”, “My Diamond Crown”, “Dry Liman” - became one of the outstanding achievements of domestic literature.

The family and personal life of Valentin Kataev for the first time Valentin Kataev married in Odessa in May on the summer merchant daughter Lyudmila Rafailovna Gershuni, but after eight months the newlyweds divorced. Very little is known about this marriage: Kataev himself never mentioned him, and only dry certificates of the Odessa registry office indicate an early hobby of the writer.

In April, Anna Sergeevna Kovalenko, a young artist with a prickly character in April, became the second wife of Kataeva, who spoke out in four languages, met her future husband in Odessa, and he persuaded her to move to Moscow. In the year, the couple broke up due to the passion of Kataev Summer Esther David Brenner - Kataev lost his head from the elegant blond girl: “How air is it!

In this marriage, the children of Kataeva were born - the daughter of Eugene Rod. Pavel Valentinovich Kataev became a children's writer, the author of several books. The death and funeral of Valentin Kataev on February 28, Kataev had a stroke, after which he was placed in the government central clinical hospital, in the care of the best doctors. Despite the complications caused by the accompanying inflammation of the lungs, it seemed that the restoration was on schedule.

Relatives agreed on an extract on Monday April 14, but at noon on April 12, as a result of a sudden cardiac arrest in the year of life, Valentin Kataeva was gone. The memorial service was held in the Central House of Writers. Bibliography of the works of Valentin Kataeva Romanes, novels and major essays of the adventure of the steam locomotive Roman Stevoz Island Endorf