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The Pipe
The present collection contains three of Yuri Nagibin's The Pipe, Winner, and Winter Oak. The Pipe is a stirring tale about a Gypsy boy who finds a true friend in a Russian farm-boy. This Gypsy child, persecuted by village moneybags, personifies the destitution, the friendlessness, the bitterness of century-long Gypsy vagabondage. But the fraternity of Soviet peoples helped the persecuted Gypsies out of the maze of their vagabond trails and brought them to a happy haven -the first Gypsy Collective Farm. The homeless boy grew up to become an actor in a Moscow theater. Winner is one of Yuri Nagibin's numerous sports stories. The story reflects the sound, comradely contiguity of Soviet sportsmen and tells of a well-deserved ceremonial round of honour made in spite of losing a race by Streshnev, a veteran skating champion. Winter Oak is Yuri Nagibin's best story about Soviet children. The author shows how a schoolteacher finally perceives life's most astounding phenomenon -"this little man, this wonderful and enigmatic citizen of the future."
116 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1955
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Yuri Nagibin
77 books26 followersYuri Markovich Nagibin (Russian: Юрий Маркович Нагибин; April 3, 1920 – June 17, 1994) was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and novelist.
He is best known for his screenplays, but he also has written several novels and novellas, and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name.[1] The novel was based on the history of Don Quixote's expedition to the North Pole.
The themes he explores range from war to ritual, history and cars.
Nagibin's mother was pregnant with him when his father was executed as a counter-revolutionary before he was born. He was raised by a Jewish stepfather from infancy, and was unaware of that he had a different father, so he always assumed he was Jewish himself. Mark Anthony, his stepfather was arrested himself and exiled to Northern Russia in 1927. Nagibin found out late in life that he was not in fact Jewish, but he consciously retained ethnic Jewish identity, having suffered many anti-Semitic incidents in the course of his life.[2]
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.[3]
He was born, and died, in Moscow, and was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
He is best known for his screenplays, but he also has written several novels and novellas, and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name.[1] The novel was based on the history of Don Quixote's expedition to the North Pole.
The themes he explores range from war to ritual, history and cars.
Nagibin's mother was pregnant with him when his father was executed as a counter-revolutionary before he was born. He was raised by a Jewish stepfather from infancy, and was unaware of that he had a different father, so he always assumed he was Jewish himself. Mark Anthony, his stepfather was arrested himself and exiled to Northern Russia in 1927. Nagibin found out late in life that he was not in fact Jewish, but he consciously retained ethnic Jewish identity, having suffered many anti-Semitic incidents in the course of his life.[2]
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.[3]
He was born, and died, in Moscow, and was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
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الغليون نهايته رائعة جداً , كم هي جميلة الأقدار عندما تدبر لقاءً لمن فرقته قسوة الحياة !
المنتصر لم تعجبني بدايته لذا لم أكملها
و السندانة الشتوية جميلة ايضاً , هادئة نوعا ما .
الغليون نهايته رائعة جداً , كم هي جميلة الأقدار عندما تدبر لقاءً لمن فرقته قسوة الحياة !
المنتصر لم تعجبني بدايته لذا لم أكملها
و السندانة الشتوية جميلة ايضاً , هادئة نوعا ما .
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