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А.И. Куприн. Повести и рассказы
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Последний дебют (рассказ)
Впотьмах (повесть)
Психея (рассказ)
Лунной ночью (рассказ)
Дознание (рассказ)
Славянская душа (рассказ)
Аль-исса (рассказ)
Куст сирени (рассказ)
К славе (рассказ)
Забытый поцелуй (рассказ)
Страшная минута (рассказ)
Мясо (рассказ)
Ночлег (рассказ)
Лолли (рассказ)
Локон (рассказ)
На реке (рассказ)
Кляча (рассказ)
Друзья (рассказ)
Молох (повесть)
Сильнее смерти (рассказ)
Первенец (рассказ)
Барбос и Жулька (рассказ)
Allez! (рассказ)
Путаница (рассказ)
Одиночество (рассказ)
Олеся (повесть)
Дух века (рассказ)
На переломе (Кадеты) (повесть)
Последний дебют (рассказ)
Впотьмах (повесть)
Психея (рассказ)
Лунной ночью (рассказ)
Дознание (рассказ)
Славянская душа (рассказ)
Аль-исса (рассказ)
Куст сирени (рассказ)
К славе (рассказ)
Забытый поцелуй (рассказ)
Страшная минута (рассказ)
Мясо (рассказ)
Ночлег (рассказ)
Лолли (рассказ)
Локон (рассказ)
На реке (рассказ)
Кляча (рассказ)
Друзья (рассказ)
Молох (повесть)
Сильнее смерти (рассказ)
Первенец (рассказ)
Барбос и Жулька (рассказ)
Allez! (рассказ)
Путаница (рассказ)
Одиночество (рассказ)
Олеся (повесть)
Дух века (рассказ)
На переломе (Кадеты) (повесть)
464 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
Aleksandr Kuprin
915 books156 followersAleksandr Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн; 7 September 1870 in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast - August 25, 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel (1905). Other well-known works include Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), Junior Captain Rybnikov (1906), Emerald (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) (which was made into a 1965 movie). Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure-seekers, who are often "neurotic and vulnerable."
Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty-seven years. His mother, Liubov' Alekseevna Kuprina, Tatar princess (of the Kulunchakovs), like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century. Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876, and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School (Cadet Corps) and Alexander Military School, spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions. His first short story, The Last Debut, was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical. "In February 1902, Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married, their daughter Lidia born in 1903." Kuprin's mother died during 1910.
Kuprin ended military service during 1894, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc. Reportedly, "all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction." His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections. Reportedly, "although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists."
Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel (1905) which made him famous. "Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize-winning Ivan Bunin" and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov. After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels. His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit (1915), was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.
Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism. While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime. During spring 1919, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France. He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years, succumbing to alcoholism. He wrote about this in much of his work. He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31, 1937, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge. His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union.
Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery (Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery) in Leningrad. A minor planet 3618 Kuprin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.
Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothels, making him a writer for all times and places."
Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty-seven years. His mother, Liubov' Alekseevna Kuprina, Tatar princess (of the Kulunchakovs), like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century. Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876, and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School (Cadet Corps) and Alexander Military School, spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions. His first short story, The Last Debut, was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical. "In February 1902, Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married, their daughter Lidia born in 1903." Kuprin's mother died during 1910.
Kuprin ended military service during 1894, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc. Reportedly, "all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction." His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections. Reportedly, "although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists."
Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel (1905) which made him famous. "Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize-winning Ivan Bunin" and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov. After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels. His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit (1915), was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.
Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism. While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime. During spring 1919, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France. He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years, succumbing to alcoholism. He wrote about this in much of his work. He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31, 1937, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge. His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union.
Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery (Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery) in Leningrad. A minor planet 3618 Kuprin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.
Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothels, making him a writer for all times and places."
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December 18, 2022
Простите за сравнение, но это «Бунин здорового человека». Там, где у означенного автора сюжет рассказов идет по формуле «томный он - невинная она (с усиками) - адюльтер - разрушенная жизнь», у Куприна - действительно интересные и живые истории от тех же адюльтеров вплоть до, практически, нуарных сюжетов. Ай, как хорошо!
December 30, 2019
Сочные, лаконичные, такие разные рассказы и повести о таких разных судьбах. Рассказы Куприна не касаются глобальных политических тем, в них герои не строят сложные теории и т.п. Зато там раскрываются темы, близкие каждому из нас: любовь, одиночество, жизненный выбор - через описание ситуации в жизни простого человека.
Как говорит сам автор устами одного из своих героев:
«Я бродяга и страстно люблю жизнь. Я был токарем, наборщиком, сеял и продавал табак, махорку-серебрянку, плавал кочегаром по Азовскому морю, рыбачил на Черном - на Дубининских промыслах, грузил арбузы и кирпич на Днепре, ездил с цирком, был актером - всего и не упомню. И никогда меня не гнала нужда. Нет, только безмерная жадность к жизни и нестерпимое любопытство... я хотел бы на несколько дней сделаться лошадью, растением или рыбою, или побыть женщиной и испытать роды; я бы хотел пожить внутренней жизнью и посмотреть на мир глазами каждого человека, которого я встречаю».
Как говорит сам автор устами одного из своих героев:
«Я бродяга и страстно люблю жизнь. Я был токарем, наборщиком, сеял и продавал табак, махорку-серебрянку, плавал кочегаром по Азовскому морю, рыбачил на Черном - на Дубининских промыслах, грузил арбузы и кирпич на Днепре, ездил с цирком, был актером - всего и не упомню. И никогда меня не гнала нужда. Нет, только безмерная жадность к жизни и нестерпимое любопытство... я хотел бы на несколько дней сделаться лошадью, растением или рыбою, или побыть женщиной и испытать роды; я бы хотел пожить внутренней жизнью и посмотреть на мир глазами каждого человека, которого я встречаю».
September 17, 2025
Пока отсюда прочитан только рассказ ОДИНОЧЕСТВО. И как же он хорош!
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