Детство сорок девять

by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Владимир Любаров (Illustrator), Людмила Улицкая

Война кончилась, а детство продолжалось. Бедное, но ведь и чудесное, каким и должно быть детство... Чтобы потом сложилась целая жизнь.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Russia

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Russian profile here Людмила Улицкая

Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria in 1943. She grew up in Moscow where she studied biology at the Moscow State University.

Having worked in the field of genetics and biochemistry, Ulitskaya began her literary career by joining the Jewish drama theatre as a literary consultant. She was the author of two movie scripts produced in the early 1990s — The Liberty Sisters (Сестрички Либерти, 1990) and A Woman for All (Женщина для всех, 1991).

Ulitskaya's first novel Sonechka (Сонечка) published in Novy Mir in 1992 almost immediately became extremely popular, and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Award. Nowadays her works are much admired by the reading public and critics in Russia and many other countries. Her works have been translated into several languages and received several international and Russian literary awards, including the Russian Booker for Kukotsky's Case (2001). Lyudmila Ulitskaya currently resides in Moscow. Ulitskaya's works have been translated into many foreign languages. In Germany her novels have been added to bestseller list thanks to features of her works in a television program hosted by literary critic Elke Heidenreich.

Reviews

[Paula Mota · Rating 4 out of 5]

#WITMonth 2024

Nascida em 1943, Ludmila Ulitskaia poderia ser qualquer uma das crianças que povoam estes seis contos sobre a infância na União Soviética, pouco depois do término da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
São histórias de escassez em que a necessidade ou a curiosidade aguçam o engenho de crianças expeditas, umas órfãs, outras que passam temporadas com os membros mais velhos da família, acompanhadas com pequenas ilustrações a preto e branco.
As minhas preferidas são “O Velho-Cochicha”, “O Patinho de Cera” e “Vitória de Papel”.

O milagre da couve - 3*

O patinho de cera - 4*
“Para a mercadoria de mais valor, como as esferas, nem sequer olhava, para que o desejo não fosse desperdiçado em vão. Hesitava entre um anelzinho com uma pedrinha verde e um patinho. O patinho estava um tudo-nada estragado, tinha uma asa metida dentro.”

O velho-cochicha-5*
“Nos últimos anos quase cegara de todo, distinguia apenas a luz da escuridão: via uma janela, um candeeiro aceso. Ler , há muito que já não conseguia, mas, por uma razão, qualquer, a bisneta Dina reteve-o na memória com um livro volumoso pousado no colo.”

Pregos-3,5*
Questão de sorte-3*

Vitória de papel-4*
“Era um grande mestre dessa arte do papel. Ghénia passava milhares de dias da sua vida na cama. Catarros de Outono, anginas de Inverno e constipações de Primavera passava-os ele com toda a paciência a dobrar cantinhos e a desenrugar dobras de folhas de papel.”

[Cláudia Cunha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uma pequena preciosidade ❤️

[kvir klub · Rating 2 out of 5]

в моем издании другого сборника был и этот
может быть, сам по себе он бы понравился мне больше, но на контрасте он кажется каким-то наивным, как сказки толстого, которые я уже разлюбила
и вторичным — по крайней мере, образ древнего деда, который связывает ребенка с миром прошлого/смерти, в другом сборнике был и был раскрыт лучше

[Mimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

5⭐️
Que livro lindo… comprei na Flaneur, na feira do livro, num blind date que o senhor escolheu (quis ser duplamente surpreendida) e foi realmente uma ótima surpresa.
Vai ficar no meu coração. É um livro quentinho, para todas as idades e com ensinamentos muito importantes.

[Jaanika Merilo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure magic.

[João Teixeira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uma colecção de pequeníssimos contos muito bem escritos. O meu preferido foi o último, "Vitória de papel".

[Avel Rudenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some great history post WWII epic stories to remember as slowly and succulently read by my mother, a Siberian-native. Many short stories, first one is about two orphan girls that are left to their own devices post-war era with barely anything and no food in-sight. Although they are left to an old-haggardly woman, that has no food of her own. They are eventually waiting in a queue outside in the flurry of snow and rain, for "cabbage", the only means of survival for them at that time. They had no money to give because they had lost it along the way, due to a holed-pocket (the coin fell-out). But, as they were returning to the old-woman's house, the cabbage truck was leaving the platform of selling to the passersby. Then, a miracle happened. The cabbage truck took an acute turn in the dark of the night, a large sack of the cabbages flying out from the back of the truck trunk. The little orphan girls aren't left with nothing after all. They have been blessed greatly, and happy ever after. They ultimately go to the old-woman's cozy home to share their winnings. This anthology is just awaiting to be read. That was just a sharing of the first short story, there are many more included in this collection. "Goodreads" to you!"

[V. · Rating 5 out of 5]

And I remember why I like Ulitskaya and especially her short fiction so much and why her stories (even though each one here, in a way, ends well) made me cry in the train when I read my first collection of hers in the train. Absolute recommendation.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet collection of stories about the lean post-war years in Soviet Russia. Every story has some aspects of cruelty of the time, but ends well, a first for Russian literature.