Different Days of War: A Writer's Diary
3 hrs. 28 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Konstantin Simonov
Author
Konstantin Simonov
Narrator
Alexey Simonov
Narrator
Konstantin Simonov
Description
Radio adaptation of Konstantin Simonov’s book “Different Days of the War.”
The subtitle of this book, “A Writer’s Diary,” largely determines its character. In the book’s preface K. Simonov wrote:
“As for writers, in my opinion they should set their diaries in order as soon as the war ends. Whatever they write during the war and no matter how much readers praise them for it, on the very first day after the war is over, the most significant thing they did during the war—will be their diaries.”
During the war, between trips to the front as a war correspondent, Konstantin Simonov wrote two books of poetry, three plays, and the story “Days and Nights,” but, as he himself said, “while managing one thing, he didn’t manage the other.” “Different Days of the War” was written by the author thirty years after the war ended. It includes not only war notes, correspondence, front-line notebooks, and diaries, but also the writer’s personal recollections—his reflections on the war, prompted by work with archival materials. “Different Days of the War” is above all a portrait “without embellishment” of Konstantin Simonov himself and of the time in which he lived: a sober—and sometimes brutally candid—view of himself and of that era.
The subtitle of this book, “A Writer’s Diary,” largely determines its character. In the book’s preface K. Simonov wrote:
“As for writers, in my opinion they should set their diaries in order as soon as the war ends. Whatever they write during the war and no matter how much readers praise them for it, on the very first day after the war is over, the most significant thing they did during the war—will be their diaries.”
During the war, between trips to the front as a war correspondent, Konstantin Simonov wrote two books of poetry, three plays, and the story “Days and Nights,” but, as he himself said, “while managing one thing, he didn’t manage the other.” “Different Days of the War” was written by the author thirty years after the war ended. It includes not only war notes, correspondence, front-line notebooks, and diaries, but also the writer’s personal recollections—his reflections on the war, prompted by work with archival materials. “Different Days of the War” is above all a portrait “without embellishment” of Konstantin Simonov himself and of the time in which he lived: a sober—and sometimes brutally candid—view of himself and of that era.
