Stories. Novellas. Unwritten Novels
13 hrs. 28 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yulian Semyonov
Author
Yulian Semyonov
Narrator
Sergey Dadyko
Narrator
Sergey Dadyko
Description
Instead of a preface
I’d like to offer the readers short plots from the “Unwritten Novels,” which will never become novels—alas, I won’t have time.
In the novellas there is no fiction: they are built on meetings with living witnesses and participants in the events described.
A writer is not a prosecutor. He has the right to his own version of history, although the supreme right of an impartial judge belongs precisely to History. A desire for unambiguous assessments hides either self-doubt or fear of the thought itself. Only those conclusions that a person reaches on his own alone form his moral stance.
The main thing that occupied me while working on this piece was the problem of unlimited power in the years now called the period of the cult of personality.
The mechanics of such power—its unbending and uncontrollable will, reducing a citizen of a great country to the level of a mere “cog”—that is the tragic and alarming thing, and that is what should be analyzed first of all—without anger and without bias.
Understanding this kind of phenomenon should help each of us develop civic resistance to even the lightest recurrence of the possibility of something like it being reborn in one form or another.
I’d like to offer the readers short plots from the “Unwritten Novels,” which will never become novels—alas, I won’t have time.
In the novellas there is no fiction: they are built on meetings with living witnesses and participants in the events described.
A writer is not a prosecutor. He has the right to his own version of history, although the supreme right of an impartial judge belongs precisely to History. A desire for unambiguous assessments hides either self-doubt or fear of the thought itself. Only those conclusions that a person reaches on his own alone form his moral stance.
The main thing that occupied me while working on this piece was the problem of unlimited power in the years now called the period of the cult of personality.
The mechanics of such power—its unbending and uncontrollable will, reducing a citizen of a great country to the level of a mere “cog”—that is the tragic and alarming thing, and that is what should be analyzed first of all—without anger and without bias.
Understanding this kind of phenomenon should help each of us develop civic resistance to even the lightest recurrence of the possibility of something like it being reborn in one form or another.
Contents:
Novellas
Hold on to the clouds!
Mr. Bolshevik
The Life of Commissar Ivanov
Short stories
The Execution of the Ataman
Night Duty
Unwritten Novels
37–56. Summer of ’37
Autumn of ’52
That night in Yaroslavl
A soldier’s fate in America
The Eve of May Day
The First Day of Freedom
Long live Voroshilov, or the Thoughts of a Tired Man
Duklo
Hold on to the clouds!
Mr. Bolshevik
The Life of Commissar Ivanov
Short stories
The Execution of the Ataman
Night Duty
Unwritten Novels
37–56. Summer of ’37
Autumn of ’52
That night in Yaroslavl
A soldier’s fate in America
The Eve of May Day
The First Day of Freedom
Long live Voroshilov, or the Thoughts of a Tired Man
Duklo
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00:32
00_01_Soderzhanie
24:24
01_01_Derzhis za oblaka!
26:49
01_02_Derzhis za oblaka!
25:14
01_03_Derzhis za oblaka!
26:06
01_04_Derzhis za oblaka!
21:50
01_05_Derzhis za oblaka!
23:07
01_06_Derzhis za oblaka!
22:17
01_07_Derzhis za oblaka!
24:39
01_08_Derzhis za oblaka!
20:36
01_09_Derzhis za oblaka!
24:20
02_01_01_Gospodin bolshevik
22:45
02_01_02_Gospodin bolshevik
22:54
02_02_01_Gospodin bolshevik
23:12
02_02_02_Gospodin bolshevik
26:58
02_02_03_Gospodin bolshevik
25:54
02_03_01_Gospodin bolshevik
26:45
02_03_02_Gospodin bolshevik
25:01
02_03_03_Gospodin bolshevik
28:13
02_03_04_Gospodin bolshevik
28:24
02_04_01_Gospodin bolshevik
27:22
02_04_02_Gospodin bolshevik
24:57
02_04_03_Gospodin bolshevik
13:39
03_01_01_Zhizn komissara Ivanova
27:23
03_01_02_Zhizn komissara Ivanova
23:56
03_01_03_Zhizn komissara Ivanova
19:27
04_01_Kazn atamana
21:01
04_02_Kazn atamana
13:29
05_Nochnoe dezhurstvo
15:25
06_01_37-56. Letom 37-go
18:17
06_02_Osen 52 -go
23:06
06_03_Ta noch v Yaroslavle
18:24
06_04_Sudba soldata v Amerike
05:53
06_05_Kanun pervomaya
21:08
06_06_Pervyy den svobody
20:28
07_01_Da zdravstvuet Voroshilov, Ili razmyshleniya ustavshego cheloveka
24:21
07_02_Da zdravstvuet Voroshilov, Ili razmyshleniya ustavshego cheloveka
19:15
08_Dyuklo
