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Леонид Иванович Добичин (1894 – 1936) е една от най-трагичните фигури на руската литература. Живял почти до самия си край в провинцията, откъснат от културния живот на големия град, той независимо от това проявява такова дълбоко разбиране на историята, природата на съветския строй, човека, на каквото са били способни малцина от неговите съвременници.
Имало е такъв съветски писател - Леонид Добичин. На едно от събранията през 1936 г., на което "формалистите" били подложени на сурова критика и той също получил порицание ("позорно", "подражание на Джойс", "Добычин е нашият ленинградски грях"), след като му дали думата (излязъл отпред, огледал всички и казал: "За съжаление, не мога да се съглася с това, което бе изречено тук"), напуснал залата и завинаги изчезнал...
Дмитрий Воденников
Той не приличаше на никого. Самобитен. Съществуваше в литературата - пък и не само в нея, - без да иска нищо, без да разчита на нещо, без да се озърта на всички страни и без да се страхува, че ще сгреши.
Вениамин Каверин
Добичин нищо не описва, не обяснява - той показва, дава дребни детайли, макар сюжетни, макар словесни, и тези детайли създават пълна, изчерпваща и дори някаква прекомерна представа за живота на неговите персонажи - за живота, който ги заобикаля, който ги е обезличил. Под микроскопа на Добичин се вижда много повече, отколкото през най-големия телескоп - и наистина: в живота таванът им е нисък, без звезди. Но Добичин си е имал свое небе.
Борис Парамонов
Имало е такъв съветски писател - Леонид Добичин. На едно от събранията през 1936 г., на което "формалистите" били подложени на сурова критика и той също получил порицание ("позорно", "подражание на Джойс", "Добычин е нашият ленинградски грях"), след като му дали думата (излязъл отпред, огледал всички и казал: "За съжаление, не мога да се съглася с това, което бе изречено тук"), напуснал залата и завинаги изчезнал...
Дмитрий Воденников
Той не приличаше на никого. Самобитен. Съществуваше в литературата - пък и не само в нея, - без да иска нищо, без да разчита на нещо, без да се озърта на всички страни и без да се страхува, че ще сгреши.
Вениамин Каверин
Добичин нищо не описва, не обяснява - той показва, дава дребни детайли, макар сюжетни, макар словесни, и тези детайли създават пълна, изчерпваща и дори някаква прекомерна представа за живота на неговите персонажи - за живота, който ги заобикаля, който ги е обезличил. Под микроскопа на Добичин се вижда много повече, отколкото през най-големия телескоп - и наистина: в живота таванът им е нисък, без звезди. Но Добичин си е имал свое небе.
Борис Парамонов
308 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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Leonid Dobychin
16 books7 followersLeonid Ivanovich Dobychin (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Добы́чин) (June 17 [O.S. June 5] 1894, Ludza, Vitebsk Governorate — March 28, 1936) was a Russian writer.
His first stories were published in 1924 in the Leningrad journal Russkii sovremennik. In the autumn of 1925 Dobychin made his first, unsuccessful, attempt to relocate to Leningrad. At this time he came to know the Chukovskys; later he became acquainted with a wide circle of authors, including Mikhail Slonimsky, Veniamin Kaverin, Yury Tynyanov, Evgeny Shvarts, Gennady Gor, and Leonid Rakhmanov. His story collections Vstrechi s Liz (Encounters with Lise, 1927) and Portret (The portrait, 1931) portray the clash of the former Russian world with the new Soviet reality; they exemplify a lyrical "antipsychologism." In his only novel, Gorod En (The Town of N, 1935), a boy recalls his family, school, and romances and the Russo-Japanese War; his village is modeled on "the town of N" from Gogol's Dead Souls. When the novel was published, it did not attract the attention of the censors, but the following year it was the object of vicious criticism in an attack on formalism among Leningrad writers. After the stormy meeting of the Leningrad Writers' Union on March 25, 1936, Dobychin disappeared; he is presumed to have committed suicide, and his body was fished out of the Neva months later.
Solomon Volkov wrote:
A writer who surpassed Zoshchenko in a desire for simplicity and laconic writing was Leonid Dobychin, a remote and lonely man who managed to produce three small books before vanishing in 1936... Dobychin's works, which were greatly esteemed among Leningrad writers, were met with hostility by the critics as collections of "man-in-the-street gossip, foul anecdotes and operetta episodes." A critic reviewing Dobychin's book fumed, "The streets of Leningrad are filled with various people, most of whom are healthy, life-loving and energetic builders of socialism, but the author writes: 'Gnats bustled.'" ... Dobychin's work was an extreme expression of the attempts by some masters of the new Petersburg prose to achieve simplicity and a laconic tone.
The same author said, "In Leningrad, people compared him to Joyce and Proust, although he wrote microscopic stories." Kaverin wrote, "The author — indignant, ironic, pained by the vulgarity of some and the unconscious cruelty of others — is clearly visible on every page."And according to Boris Lanin, "Dobychin's experimentalism was not understood by his contemporaries, as it adhered neither to the dictates of socialist realism nor imitated the ornamental prose of Pil'niak and Zamiatin, and he remained on the periphery of Russian literary life."[7] Dobychin's work was not republished in Russia until 1989.
His first stories were published in 1924 in the Leningrad journal Russkii sovremennik. In the autumn of 1925 Dobychin made his first, unsuccessful, attempt to relocate to Leningrad. At this time he came to know the Chukovskys; later he became acquainted with a wide circle of authors, including Mikhail Slonimsky, Veniamin Kaverin, Yury Tynyanov, Evgeny Shvarts, Gennady Gor, and Leonid Rakhmanov. His story collections Vstrechi s Liz (Encounters with Lise, 1927) and Portret (The portrait, 1931) portray the clash of the former Russian world with the new Soviet reality; they exemplify a lyrical "antipsychologism." In his only novel, Gorod En (The Town of N, 1935), a boy recalls his family, school, and romances and the Russo-Japanese War; his village is modeled on "the town of N" from Gogol's Dead Souls. When the novel was published, it did not attract the attention of the censors, but the following year it was the object of vicious criticism in an attack on formalism among Leningrad writers. After the stormy meeting of the Leningrad Writers' Union on March 25, 1936, Dobychin disappeared; he is presumed to have committed suicide, and his body was fished out of the Neva months later.
Solomon Volkov wrote:
A writer who surpassed Zoshchenko in a desire for simplicity and laconic writing was Leonid Dobychin, a remote and lonely man who managed to produce three small books before vanishing in 1936... Dobychin's works, which were greatly esteemed among Leningrad writers, were met with hostility by the critics as collections of "man-in-the-street gossip, foul anecdotes and operetta episodes." A critic reviewing Dobychin's book fumed, "The streets of Leningrad are filled with various people, most of whom are healthy, life-loving and energetic builders of socialism, but the author writes: 'Gnats bustled.'" ... Dobychin's work was an extreme expression of the attempts by some masters of the new Petersburg prose to achieve simplicity and a laconic tone.
The same author said, "In Leningrad, people compared him to Joyce and Proust, although he wrote microscopic stories." Kaverin wrote, "The author — indignant, ironic, pained by the vulgarity of some and the unconscious cruelty of others — is clearly visible on every page."And according to Boris Lanin, "Dobychin's experimentalism was not understood by his contemporaries, as it adhered neither to the dictates of socialist realism nor imitated the ornamental prose of Pil'niak and Zamiatin, and he remained on the periphery of Russian literary life."[7] Dobychin's work was not republished in Russia until 1989.
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