Vil Lipatov: biography, works

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

Soviet writer Vil Lipatov is immediately associated with the famous and popular characters he created - Aniskin and Stoletov. Interestingly, the images of all the negative characters of his works are written off from real people. According to the most striking works, wonderful Soviet films were created. For the film "And it's all about him" Lipatov was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1977). The writer also received the first prize at the Nikolai Ostrovsky All-Union Competition (1974). In addition, the writer's arsenal includes the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for his contribution to the development of Soviet literature.

Lipatov Vil Vladimirovich

He was born in Chita on April 10, 1927 in an intelligent and educated family. His father worked in the local newspaper "Zabaykalsky Rabochiy", his mother was a teacher of Russian language and literature in a regular school.

In 1942, after school, Vil Lipatov saw himself as an officer, so he entered the Institute of Military Engineering in Novosibirsk, but then abruptly changed his plans. It was then that he showed his writing talent, and he transferred toPedagogical Institute of Tomsk at the historical department.

While in his junior years, Vil Lipatov began working in the local newspaper Krasnoye Znamya, where his very first stories were published: Two in Vests, Aircraft Stoker (1956), etc.

Proceedings

In 1958, he was already back in his native Chita, where he began working as a literary secretary for the newspaper publishing house "At a combat post". And from 1964 to 1966 he was already a special correspondent for the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya. But then fate threw him to Bryansk (in 1965). In 1967, he ended up in Moscow itself, where he worked in the newspapers Izvestia, Literaturnaya Gazeta and Pravda.

In recent years, he was the secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of the USSR. Lipatov was married to Maria Kozhevnikova, the daughter of the famous writer V. Kozhevnikov.

The famous writer died on May 1, 1979 and was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow.

Vil Lipatov: books

The first book - Lipatov's story "Six" - was published in 1958. It was written in the spirit of Soviet "industrial" prose. Its plot describes how brave drivers during a strong snowstorm were able to carry the equipment necessary for the timber industry through the taiga.

In overcoming difficulties, a person grows stronger, matures and grows as a person, especially when this happens in a work team. The theme of a labor feat and the relationship of a person with other people determines the plots of the following stories by Vilya Lipatov: “Your own burden does not pull”, “The Captain of the “Brave” (1959), “Deaf Mint” (1960), “The Tooth of Wisdom” and"Rod" (1961), "The Death of Yegor Suzun" and "Black Yar" (1963), "The Earth is not on whales" (1966).

Literary fame

In 1964, Vil Lipatov wrote the story "Alien", which caused a heated discussion among critics, as it touched upon the psychology of the modern tradesman. However, all-Union fame for him, as a writer, was brought by a cycle of stories about the detective Aniskin (1967-1968).

The works "Lida Varksina" (1968), "The Legend of Director Pronchatov" (1969) and others very clearly presented the style and direction of the author's prose - essay-documentary. Social conflicts, images of heroes and, most importantly, trust in a person who is always capable of correcting himself and improving his relations with colleagues in the process of collective work and applying the right approach to any problem - this is the main theme of the author's works.

Social criticism

Gradually, its relevance, simplicity and clarity to factual narratives led to increased social criticism.

In the late 60s, Vil Lipatov was one of the first writers who specifically hinted at the troubles of society using the examples of his heroes - an honest Aniskin and a manager-engineer Pronchatov, who was forced to get out and break social rules in order to benefit people. This approach immediately provoked polemical attacks against the village investigator and a sort of enterprising Siberian Ostap Bender.

Novels

Further Lipatov takes onwriting novels "And it's all about him" (1974) and "Igor Savvovich" (1977). They describe the shadow economy and bureaucracy, and therefore the fatality of the positive hero of the young Komsomol member Yevgeny Stoletov and the inevitability of the defeat of Igor Savvovich.

But in the works “Even before the war” (1971), “The Life of Vanya Murzin”, eternal human values are affirmed - honesty, work, true love, friendly family.

In the work "The Gray Mouse" (1970), the author observes with great sadness and even pain the fate of the weak Semyon Balandin, who destroys his "I" with vodka. This hero resembles the truth-seekers of Shukshin. He cannot find a use for himself, his inventions and projects, and therefore he becomes an inveterate drunkard.