Yuri Olesha biography

Olesha Yuri his life resembles a sinusoid - behind a sharp rise in bright talent, which brought all -Union fame, followed by a creative crisis stretched for decades. When the writer’s name thoroughly forgotten, he returned to literature with a new masterpiece, which has already delighted the new generation of readers. The childhood and youth of Yuri Olesha Yuri Karlovich Olesha was born on February 19 on March 3 in Elisavetgrad of the Kherson province now Kropyvnitsky, however, after moving at the age of three, he always considered himself a native of this city in Odessa.

The father of the family Karl Antonovich came from the gentry class. In his youth, he lost the birth estate in cards, which made him go to excise officials. Subsequently, the writer recalled that his father loved to pour, and once in a drunken form he almost arranged shooting from a revolver right in the apartment. Mother Olga Vladislavovna Gerlovich, like her husband, was from the Western Territory and was distinguished by beauty and arrogance.

Polish speech sounded at home, his son was called hedgehog, not Yuri. Olesha recalled that his grandmother Malvina Frantsevna taught him the Russian language and arithmetic. Possessing a poetic soul, she taught little Yura and the first lessons of aesthetics, the ability to admire nature. Parents never had spiritual intimacy with his son and were not particularly interested in his deeds: so, already in the year Olga Vladislavovna was surprised to hear from someone that her son became a famous writer.

He studied without much difficulties, was considered one of the best students of the institution and graduated from a gold medal. But Olesha changed behind the threshold of school. The restless and alive, Yura loved the circus and cinema, the sea and books, but most of all - football. Once he even scored a decisive goal in the final of the championship of city gymnasiums. He retained the passion for this game later - already as a fan.

The end of the gymnasium coincided with the revolutionary events of the year. Olesha perceived radical changes in the country with youthful enthusiasm. Two years at the Odessa Novorossiysk University coincided with the period of the civil war, so everything around was distracted from attending lectures. Yuri studied at the Faculty of Law, but, by his own admission, passed only one test and remembered the name of only one professor.

In the year, Olesha threw the university. The beginning of the creative activity of Yuri Olesha, an active and talented young man could not pass by literature in a city where the colorful language and seething of life had entertaining stories and picturesque narratives. The literary debut of Yuri Olesha came for a year when his first poems went out in the Odessa Leaf. They were distinguished by the romantic ejective of style, living language, inexhaustible humor.

He wrote plays, epigrams, feuilletons, gained writing experience. In the year, Olesha, following the example of many Odessa friends, moved to Moscow. For several years, he collaborated with the Gudok newspaper. The Literary Department of the Gudka was rightfully considered a first -class team - in addition to Odessa residents, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Konstantin Paustovsky worked in it.

Under the pseudonym, Olesha composed poetic satires and humor, who received wide recognition. The best of them came out in separate collections. Yuri Olesha’s work, the first writer's success of Yuri Karlovich, was the novel “Three Fat Men”, written in the year and published four years later. The book inspired by the revolutionary events and facts of personal life was distinguished by the metaphorism of the word and innocence of the presentation.

The story of the gunsmith Prospero, the Kanatokhodets Tibule and the doll girl of Suok fell in love with millions of children. It was set on stage more than once, and in the year A. was filmed in the year, real fame came to Olesha.

The novel "Envy" immediately attracted general attention. Critics noted the juiciness of the letter, an excellent literary taste, and the energy of the text. At the same time, “envy” raised the burning problem of the artist and society, the old and new views on the world. The heroes of the book - Babichev, Makarov, Cavaliers - reflected different facets of modern existence.

The first is represented by an enthusiast of socialist construction, the second-a supporter of the creation of man-machines, the third is a poet by nature. The latter, the most talented, turned out to be the least in demand - under him Olesha brought himself out. Based on the novel in the year, the director of the theater. Evgenia Vakhtangov A. Popov staged a spectacular performance “Conspiracy of feelings”.

The stories "Lyumpa" and "Cherry Bone", the play "List of good deeds", written in - gg. However, the triumphal statement of socialist realism in literature at the beginning of the xg. Olesha personally condemned the mistakes of “envy” at the I All -Union Congress of Soviet writers, promising to write in a different way, but, in fact, stopped writing at all. Yuri Karlovich was much more often seen in the restaurant of the Central House of Writers or on football than on the pages of literary magazines.

Sporadic impulses to return to Peru quickly ran out, it turned more and more into an exotic exhibit from the past. The appearance of the year, after the death of the writer, the cycle of autobiographical miniatures “Not a day without a line”.Remembering his life in the age of years - from birth to sad minutes of literary downtime and oblivion - Olesha found his former sonorous voice and expressive intonation.

Three daughters of the Austrian emigrant Gustav Suok - Lydia, Olga and Seraphim - were at the epicenter of Odessa literary life. She called his “key”, in response he called her “friend”. But bright happiness disappeared quite quickly. The charming Sima turned out to be a frivolous girl, capable of rash acts. At first she left Olesha to one Kharkov Nepman, then to the poet V. in the future her husbands were the literary critics N.

Khardzhiev and V. The image of Seraphima was immortalized by Olesha in the girl-doll of the “three fat people”. As a result, the writer married Olga, the middle of the sisters. For the sake of Olesha, she divorced her first husband, became the writer a faithful friend and a reliable support. There were no children in this marriage. The death and funeral of Yuri Olesha Yuri Olesha died on May 10 in his Moscow apartment from myocardial infarction.

Farewell passed without much splendor: only relatives and friends were present. They buried the author of the “three fat people” in the Novodevichy cemetery next to the grave of E. Bagritsky - a longtime friend of youth and a sheeps, once married to the eldest of the sisters of Suok Lydia. For many years, the grave of Yuri Olesha was desolate, and only in the year, by decision of the Union of Writers, Moscow carried out a reconstruction of tombstones and brought a burial into a proper form.

The significance of the work of Yuri Olesha for the prose of Yuri Olesha in its best manifestations is characterized by an original language, optical effects of phrases, and even the “dough of the syllable”. He was an innovator and at the same time a connoisseur of a word, not ready for the sake of shocking to cause him damage. Its expressive images are remembered by metaphors. Olesha stood at the origins of the new manner of writing, more precisely and or rather, reflecting the change, aspiration, reality than before the set of vocabulary and syntax.

In this regard, he stands on a par with I. Babel and A. The well -known works of Yuri Olesha on the works of Yuri Olesha and the scripts written by him have shot several artistic and animated films. The film of the year “Strict young man” of the director A. Room went to the shelf for many decades, “Swamp Soldiers”, shot by A. Macharetet in the year, turned out to be a passing campaign, the film “The Error of Engineer Kochin” of the same A.

Room was shot against the heyday of spyingomania. A. Batalov’s film “Three Fat Men”, shot in the year, and cartoons “Three Fat Forests” and “Smarted” according to the same famous fairy tale came out much more successful. Bibliography of the works of Yuri Olesha.