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by Bulat Okudzhava, Булат Окуджава

Знаменитое произведение «Упраздненный театр», за которое Булат Окуджава был удостоен букеровской премии, представляет историю раннего детства автора, которое проходило в атмосфере любви и радостного уюта, несмотря на «грозные, непредсказуемые сумерки за окном». Драматические события эпохи, тесно переплетаясь с личными воспоминаниями писателя, рождают своеобразную «мелодию утрат», печальный мотив, неотделимый от века минувшего.

В настоящее издание вошли также автобиографические повести и рассказы: «Будь здоров, школяр», «Новенький как с иголочки», «Уроки музыки», «Искусство кройки и житья» и другие.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (also transliterated as Boulat Okudjava, Bulat Okudjava, Boulat Okoudjava, or Okoudzhava; Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва, Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა) (May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet poet, writer, musician, novelist,singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya). He was of Georgian-Armenian origin, born in Moscow and died in Paris. He was the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political (in contrast to those of some of his fellow "bards"), the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give official sanction to Okudzhava as a singer-songwriter.

Reviews

[Vit Babenco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nine Grams of Lead into a Heart is an anthology of Bulat Okudzhava’s autobiographical prose. The first half of the book is a novel about his childhood and the second half consists of novelettes and short stories about the war years when he was a soldier and the years of him being a teacher in a rural school.
The stories are full of sadness and nostalgia and the writer is quite sincere and honest narrating about the hard times of his young years. The short stories Good-bye, Schoolboy!, Girl of My Dreams and The Art of Needles and Sins – one of the best – where translated in English at different times.