Konstantin Fedin

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Konstantin Fedin


Born
in Saratov, Russian Federation
February 24, 1892

Died
July 15, 1977

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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (Russian: Константин Федин) was a Soviet novelist.

Born in Saratov of humble origins, Fedin studied in Moscow and Germany and was interned there during World War I. After his release he worked as an interpreter in the first Soviet embassy in Berlin. On returning to Russia he joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army; after leaving the Party in 1921 he joined the literary group called the Serapion Brothers, who supported the Revolution but wanted freedom for literature and the arts.

His first story, "The Orchard," was published in 1922, as was his play Bakunin v Drezdene (Bakunin in Dresden). His first two novels are his most important; Goroda i gody (1924; tr. as Cities and Years, 1962, "one of the first
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Cities and Years

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3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1924 — 22 editions
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Early Joys

3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1946 — 22 editions
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Sanatoriul Arkthur

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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1940 — 9 editions
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Костер

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
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No Ordinary Summer - 1

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions
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Необыкновенное лето

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No Ordinary Summer - 2

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Ich war Schauspieler

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1937
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Bratři

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“When we are asked 'what is socialist realism?' and we answer: acquaint yourself with all the best books by Soviet writers, we often see disappointment on the faces of our questioners. We are expected to offer prescriptions! What is amazing is that the more foreign writers talk about artistic freedom, saying that we Soviet writers are leveling and regimenting literature, the more insistently, even aggressively they demand that we give them, at last, a precise answer to the question 'What is socialist realism and how does this method operate?' It seems to me that partially because of their aggressive demands these writers receive a recipe of sorts: socialist realism requires 50 percent positive, 5 percent negative hero, 1 percent social contradictions, 1 percent inspired romanticism, and 100 percent aqua distillata. But art is not created by recipes.”
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