M Leonov Biography
Leonov Leonid Maksimovich L. Leonov was born in the family of the famous Surikist poet Maxim Goremyk. His childhood passed in Moscow, in Zaryadye, in the merchant shop of his grandfather - Leon Leonovich Leonov, who instilled in the boy a love of ancient Russian and spiritual literature. Summer Leonov spent in with. Polukhino Tarusky district of the Kaluga province.
A gymnasium student traveled to Arkhangelsk on vacation. In the press, his first poem appeared, and later notes on public life, theatrical and artistic reviews. Leonov’s early poems, by his own admission, “childishly changing voice, the first test of voice, tuning the lyre”, were associated with populist and symbolist aesthetics, and in many ways imitative.
After the gymnasium was graduated, Leonov went to his father in Arkhangelsk, worked in the newspapers Northern Morning, Northern Day. Meetings with the “poets of the North” opened the world of Russian legends, virgin nature, epic Rus' with its poetry and symbols. In the year, Leonid Leonov came to Balakhna to collect material for the novel "Sot". At that time, a large cellulose-paper plant was erected here.
The novel "Sot" is not a documentary work, but a large artistic canvas that truthfully display the construction of the plant during the first five -year plan. The creation of a giant enterprise in the “bear corner” interested the writer as a concentration of a whole circle of problems: the growing of a new life in an old, established for centuries, a way, the invasion of technology into a world of nature ...
Some critics saw in the novel an encyclopedia of Russian life in the late xg. Gorky, who highly appreciated Leonov’s novel, himself visited Balakhna in the same years. Leonov X novels - “Sot”, “Skutarevsky”, “The Road to the Ocean” - reflected, according to the writer himself, “the history of a clash of advancing novelty with the Russian archaic, the history of the first meeting of a car with dense subsoil.” However, Leonova was interested not just the birth of a new construction site, overcoming the natural element, he reflected on the place of Russia in a civilized process, about the correlation of the idea of “creating a new world” with genetic material - a simple, “spontaneous person”, burdened by the load of the past: lost faith, degenerated into a blindness of idols, a philistine, a browned feeling.
property, rotten foundations of everyday life. From the city of Leonov, he writes the novel "Russian Forest". Working on the work, the writer thoroughly studied forestry problems, the works of the classics of Russian forestry and discussion on this topic. However, the meaning of the novel is not exhausted by the “idea of constant forest use”, through the theme of the forest, Leonov went to thoughts about the historical fate of Russia, about the Russian national character, and about environmental problems.
In the x Leonov returns to some works of previous years, publishes the new edition of the novel “Thief”, where he strengthens the motives of guilt in the image of the protagonist, the new edition of Meteli, “Golden Carriage”, publishes the Mr. McKinley film pumplet, where the atmosphere of horror associated with the possibility of nuclear war is recreated. Completes the work on the emergency, the elegant story “Evgenia iVanovna”, dedicated to the fate of an involuntary emigrant, who could not “get rid” from love for the homeland.
In the city, this novel sums up both Leonov’s own work, and the entire realistic literature of the XX century. In it, with special distinctness, L.'s desire was manifested by L. Leonov to combine in his work the scientific picture of the world with theological, to recreate the path of development of civilization, to explain the essence of historical cataclysms in Russia, "where the human soul is represented in all kinds of dissection." Sources: Russian writers.
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