"Kalina Krasnaya", Shukshin: summary by chapter, analysis

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Have you noticed that some authors write their works so figuratively, but at the same time uncomplicatedly, that even after many years, memories of their creations pop up in the head in whole films. You imagine the hero of the story so vividly while reading that later, when you come across the adaptation, you literally scream: “Exactly, that’s exactly what he looks like!” This is exactly what happens while watching the film "Kalina Krasnaya" (Shukshin). The summary of this story may take a few minutes, but the experience remains with us forever.

Vasily Shukshin is a great tragedian

Literary critics unanimously assert that such a fusion of different talents and qualities into a single whole will surprise and make more than one generation of readers admire. Even though the work of Vasily Makarovich belongs toSoviet era. “Kalina Krasnaya” (we will analyze a summary of the chapters a little later) is the clearest example of how the author dissolves, does not notice himself in the face of the problems that he raises to readers. Shukshin literally belonged to art.

Sometimes critics claim that Vasily Makarovich "demonstrated" himself, flaunted to gain even more recognition. But his friends and relatives, as well as many literary critics, say the opposite: any indication of himself, any demonstration of his "I" was completely alien to him. That is why it became unforgettable.

Film Story

Let's take, for example, almost his most famous work - "Kalina Krasnaya". Shukshin (a brief summary will not convey emotional intensity, but at least remind the storyline) wrote this film story in 1973. The dynamism of the plot, many dialogues and third-person narration are the main literary characteristics of the work.

Critics immediately noticed that such an image of the protagonist - Yegor Prokudin - has not yet been in art. It is he who distinguishes the film "Kalina Krasnaya" from the general series. A brief description of his nature is as follows: he is either gentle and sentimental, hugging almost every birch tree he meets, or rude and “climbing for trouble”; one minute Yegor is cheerful and kind, and the next he is already a bandit and a lover of booze. It seemed to some literary critics that such inconsistency speaks of a lack of character, which means that it does not convey the whole truth of life "Kalina Krasnaya".

Shortthe content (Shukshin conducted an analysis of his interlocutors with lightning speed and accuracy) of all the events that happened to him, he - an actor, director and writer - literally lived. Everything, whether it was a retelling of a quarrel with a watchman or a meeting of the dawn, aroused a storm of passions in him and was torn to paper and film. This "trinity" created a lot of problems for Shukshin in life.

Consistent inconsistency

The apparent inconsistency of Prokudin's actions is actually not simple, not spontaneous. Shukshin managed to convey logic alien to an ordinary person. We do not understand, and, most likely, we should not understand and accept the actions of this person. But this does not mean that such a life has no right to exist in principle.

So, "Kalina Krasnaya", Shukshin. Let's start with the summary with the fact that Yegor, a recidivist thief, receives parting words from the head of the zone where Prokudin was serving his sentence. In the morning he must go free, and we become aware of some of the dreams of this man: to get a cow and get married. Egor has never seen his chosen one in his life. They met through correspondence.

Once free, Prokudin goes to his friends (as you understand, also "unclean hands"). The company gathered there is waiting for news about how the next robbery went. Everyone is trying to ask Gore (that's what Yegor's friends call him) about the prison, but he doesn't want to talk about it at all. Spring is on the street, and Prokudin is enjoying life.

A ringing phone call interrupts the gathering:accomplices covered by the police, and everyone needs to run away. Realizing that nothing threatens him, Prokudin also runs. Such is the power of habit…

Road to normal life

How do events unfold in the story "Kalina Krasnaya"? Shukshin (the summary does not convey all the nuances of Prokudin's attitude to life) sends his hero to a meeting with his future wife - Any. She meets him at the bus stop and takes him to meet his parents.

In order not to frighten the elderly, Lyuba says that her chosen one is a former accountant. But, left alone with his parents and answering questions, Yegor says: “I killed seven, I didn’t have time for the eighth …”. He is sure that a person has the right to rehabilitation, and, having received a punishment, one cannot return. And you can't judge him either. He criticizes the "backward" old people and their worldview, trying on the role of a public figure.

Prejudice

Public morality is quite clearly spelled out in the story "Kalina Krasnaya". The content (Shukshin repeatedly shows the influence of society on the individual) of the conversations of Lyuba, her mother and daughter-in-law about a new acquaintance comes down to dissatisfaction for only one reason: Yegor has just been released from prison. Women convey the opinion of fellow villagers.

And Egor himself spends time in the bathhouse with Lyuba's brother, Peter. This taciturn person is absolutely indifferent to what is happening. He is too lazy to get acquainted with Yegor and have intimate conversations with him. Scenes with Yegor's resentment towards Peter, with the ensuing understanding that it is not pride and prejudices that drivethem, and the usual taciturnity, very vividly described Vasily Shukshin. “Kalina red” (we are trying to remember a brief summary) continues with Peter’s cry from the bathhouse, everyone grabs “heavy” and runs to the rescue. But in fact, Yegor accidentally splashed boiling water on Peter. The incident is turned into a joke, and the rest of the evening passes in a "warm friendly environment."

Details

Lyuba's friend, Varya, offers to break up with Egor and take back her ex-husband, Kolka. It's the little things that he's a drunkard. Varya laughingly talks about her happy life with her alcoholic husband. Her story that beating a drunkard with a rolling pin is the norm, somewhat jars Lyuba. Lyuba does not want to be “like everyone else”, and this is very annoying for her fellow villagers.

Meanwhile, Prokudin thinks about his comrades whom he managed to see after his release from prison. He even sends money to one of them (Guboshlep). Why does Shukshin show all this? “Kalina Krasnaya”, a summary of which is our current interest, conveys the mood of society in relation to recidivists, to those who go against accepted norms. Shukshin could not but raise this topic in his work.

Reveler

Egor is hanging out in a restaurant with strangers. He pours money and “debauchery” in every possible way (as Shukshin himself called it): he sings, dances, drinks and makes pathetic speeches. But closer to the night, he remembers Lyuba, calls her and says that business has detained him in the city. The mother does not believe such a "legend", but her father rescues Lyuba and helps her to explain herself to her mother. It is the support of his father that Shukshin persistently emphasizes.

"Kalina Krasnaya" - the summary again does not contain all the events and dialogues - continues with the fact that Prokudin takes a taxi and returns to Lyuba. But she goes to her brother, and they continue to drink in the bathhouse (in a dark cramped world, as Shukshin called this place)

New work

Seeing Luba to the farm where she works in the morning, Yegor recalls his childhood - his mother, the cow Manka and boyish carelessness. Lyuba casually mentions a drunkard - an ex-husband. So, for casual chatting, they reach the farm, where Yegor meets the director and immediately gets a job as a driver. Having completed the first task, Prokudin refuses to work and says that it is easier for him on a tractor.

In the evening, on a borrowed dump truck, Grief takes Lyuba to a neighboring village. He asks her to introduce herself as a social worker and talk to old Kudelikhoy. He himself during this visit looks very serious and does not take off his black glasses. On the way home, it turns out that they visited Yegor's mother.

Even a brief summary of the story "Kalina Krasnaya" by Shukshin cannot be conveyed without a description of the moment when, for the first time, sitting behind the wheel of a tractor, Prokudin makes the first furrow. He is overwhelmed with joy and pride, he cannot breathe the smell of plowed land.

Not without knots

When an ex-husband with friends comes to Luba's house and tries to download rights, Yegor puts the whole company out of the gate with his fists. Summary of the story "Kalina Krasnaya" Shukshina cannot convey the entirethe fullness of the cinematic scene of this fight. After all, it ended because, under the heavy gaze of Yegor, Kolka, who was walking at him with a stake, stopped.

There was another trouble in Prokudin's life. Shura's former friend came to visit him from the city. He brought money from Guboshlep, which was supposed to help Yegor return to his old life. But Prokudin refuses such an offer, throwing money in the visitor's face. Egor manages to calm the flustered Lyuba, but it is clear that he himself is on edge.

Tragic death

Working in the field, Egor notices a Volga with former friends at the edge of the forest. He goes to them, and in the meantime we find out that Guboshlep decided to get even with Gor for the fact that he moved away from the thieves' life.

By the time the worried Lyuba figured out what was going on and drove with her brother to the forest edge, the city visitors were already leaving home. Lyuba found a seriously wounded Yegor, and she and Peter tried to help Prokudin. But at some point, he felt an imminent death and asked to be put on the ground to listen … With his last strength, Yegor Prokudin asks to give his money to his mother.

"And he lay, a Russian peasant, in his native steppe, close to home…"