Юрий Бондарев. Собрание сочинений в 4 томах

by Yuri Bondarev, Юрий Бондарев

Собрание сочинений известного советского писателя Юрия Бондарева.

Том 1:
Повести "Батальоны просят огня" и "Последние залпы" - о войне. В них - суровая и мужественная правда, высокая нравственная сила советского солдата, прошедшего через испытания огнем.
В книгу входят и рассказы разных лет.

Том 2:
В романе "Тишина" рассказыватеся о том, как вступали в мирную жизнь бывшие фронтовики, два молодых человека, друзья детства. Они напряженно ищут свое место в жизни.
В книгу входят статьи о литературе и писателях.

Том 3:
Роман "Горячий снег" посвящен одной из героических и трагических страниц Великой Отечественной войны - Сталининградской битве.
Только что сформированная армия, в составе которой находится дивизия полковника Деева, отражает прорыв танковой группировки Манштейна, идушей на помощь окруженным войскам Паулюса.
В книгу входят статьи о литературе и писателях.

Том 4:
"Юность командиров" - это повесть о молодых людях, вернувшихся с войны и направленных в военное училище. Герои ее - сержанты, младшие офицеры, рано познавшие цену жизни, цену товарищеской помощи в трудную минуту, - люди с обостренным чувством справедливости.
События повести "Родственники" происходят в наши дни. В ней поднимаются глубокие морально-нравственные проблемы ответственности человека перед обществом, перед самим собой, перед будущим.

2096 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Юрий Бондарев

Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924, Orsk) is a Russian writer.

Bondarev took part in World War II as an artillery officer and became a member of the CPSU in 1944. He graduated in 1951 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. His first collection of stories entitled On a Large River was published in 1953.

His first successes in literature, the novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959) were part of a new trend of war fiction which dispensed with pure heroes and vile villains in favor of emphasizing the true human cost of war. The Last Salvos was adapted for the cinema in 1961. His next novels Silence (1962), The Two (1964) and Relatives (1969) established him as a leading Soviet writer. His novel Silence became a landmark as the first work to depict a citizen who had been wrongly sentenced to the Gulag. His novels generally cover topics of ethics and personal choices.

In the novel The Hot Snow (1969) he again used the theme of war, creating an epic canvas dealing with the Battle of Stalingrad from the viewpoint of its many participants including common soldiers and military commanders. In his novel The Shore (1975), a Soviet writer learns that a German woman, with whom he had a passionate love affair as a young officer, still loves him. He dies before reaching the promised "shore" of his youthful dream. In The Choice (1980) a terminally ill expatriate kills himself on a visit to Moscow so that he can be buried in the city of his youth. His fate causes an old Soviet friend of his to engage in a painful exploration of existencial questions.

Bondarev has also done much work for the cinema. Besides adapting his own novels for the screen, he co-authored the script for the serial film Liberation (1968-71).

In political life during the early 1990s, Bondarev participated in Russia's national-communist opposition politics, belonging to the National Salvation Front leadership. Bondarev was a member of the central committee of the hardline Communist Party of the RSFSR at the end of the Mikhail Gorbachev era; in July 1991 he signed the anti-Perestroika declaration "A Word to the People".