Kochetov Brief biography

Born: February 4, Kochetov was born on January 22 on February 4 in Novgorod in a peasant family. In the year he moved to Leningrad, where his older brother lived. In Leningrad, Kochetov graduated from an agricultural college in the year, after which he worked in the village for several years. He also worked at the shipbuilding shipyard. In the year, his journalistic work began as a correspondent of the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda.

During the Great Patriotic War, also in journalistic work, an employee of the newspaper of the Leningrad Front. In the post -war period, he took up writing, starting it with the story “On the Neva Plains”, dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War. He created works in ... the genre of socialist realism and in the spirit of official Soviet patriotism with the clear following party attitudes.

The success of the novel “Zhurbina”, dedicated to the life of the workers of the shipyard, published in the year, brought the success of Kochetov. The novel was translated into many languages ​​and was repeatedly reprinted. His novel “The Brothers of the Ershovs”, conceived as an antithesis to the novel by V. Dudintsev “Not by bread,” in which he condemns the phenomena of the “thaw”, was criticized for exaggeration in the newspaper Pravda.

The last novel of the writer is the most famous - “What do you want? Kochetov resolutely opposed the decomposition of Soviet society by Western culture and propaganda, and from frankly prostalin positions the author himself in the novel acts under the name of the writer Bulatov. The novel caused a lively polemic. Two parodies were written at him at once: the Papernoy Parody “Why is he Kochet?

Smirnova “Why are you laughing? Both of them, of course, could not be officially published and “walked” around Moscow in Samizdat, printed on a typewriter. In the year, 20 representatives of the intelligentsia signed a letter with a protest against the publication of this “obscurantist” novel “What do you want?

Kochetov was the secretary of the Leningrad branch of the joint venture - and a member of the board of the USSR joint venture from the year, the chief editor of the Literary Newspaper in -, October magazine since the year. Kochetov’s contemporaries noted that he was not an arrogant bureaucrat and often used his administrative capabilities to help the needy writers, helping them financially, provided by V.

According to a number of sources, he decided to voluntarily die, experiencing severe torment as a result of a cancer. From g.