Взятие Великошумска

by Leonid Leonov, Леонид Леонов

Повесть Л.Леонова "Взятие Великошумска", написанная в 1944 году, посвящена подвигам советских людей во время Великой Отечественной войны.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1944

About the author

Леонид Леонов
Leonid Maximovich Leonov (Russian: Леонид Максимович Леонов; 31 May 1899 — 8 August 1994) was a Soviet novelist and playwright. He has been dubbed the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose.

Leonid was born in Moscow in 1899. His father, Maxim Leonov, was a self-educated peasant poet who was at one time the chairman of the Surikov Literary and Musical circle (Surikov was also of peasant origin). Maxim Leonov later joined the Sreda literary group of Moscow, which counted Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Ivan Bunin among its members.

Leonid's earliest memory was of 1905, when Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was assassinated by the terrorist Kalyayev. In the same year Leonid's father was arrested for two pamphlets that he had published. Leonid was taken twice by his grandmother to visit his father in prison. After serving 20 months, Maxim Leonov was exiled to Arkhangelsk. Leonid visited him there several times, and his impressions and observations were later reflected in many of his works, especially Sot.

He attended the Moscow Third gymnasium from 1910 to 1918. His first poems, reviews, and news reports were published in 1915 in the journal Severnoe Utro. He had intended to study medicine at Moscow State University, but his plans were disrupted by the outbreak of the Russian Civil War.

Reviews

[Нестор · Rating 5 out of 5]

Гениально.

[Jeff Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review is for the English translation by Norbert Guterman published in 1946 by LB Fisher, titled Chariot of Wrath. Despite the subject matter — savage war, a violent struggle against racist fascism, scenes of horror, descriptions of brutality — this is in many ways a quite lyrical book. An example of the power of words, in the hands of a gifted author, to transform and transcend ugliness. This relatively thin book could be descriptively subtitled “a day in the life and death of tank 203” But the story is really much more than the heroic exploits of this tank. It is a course about the crew as well as the corps commander, and in fact one could say the Russian people in general. I’ve had this book for decades I’m not quite sure where or how I got it but somehow given what is going on right now in Ukraine it seemed appropriate to pull this off the shelf and read it. In fact the book takes place somewhere in western Ukraine in December 1944. The Germans of course are in retreat but it is a nasty fighting retreat and though they may not have the stamina they had in 41-42, they do not give up their conquests lightly. The Soviet tankers, each with their own personal, grievous hell that they all bring into battle, will do their best to wreak a terrible vengeance upon the departing despised Wehrmacht. Though described as a “classic” Socialist Realist author, Leonov’s tale is really a universal one: the outrage of a wronged people, and the brotherhood formed to right it.

[Маx Nestelieiev · Rating 5 out of 5]

интересный стиль у леонова, очень синкретичный, "пирамиду" пока не читал, но верю прилепину и быкову, что леонов гениален