Pavel Sanaev, "Bury me behind the plinth": a summary of the story

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The book "Bury me behind the plinth" (see below for a summary of several stories in the story) produced the effect of an exploding bomb in the world of readers. It is so ambiguous and unusual that it is difficult to convey the emotions that arose during reading. However, the author's language is so catchy that one who has read a couple of lines will no longer leave the book until the last page. And then he will hold it in his hands for a long time, trying to understand what it was, where such a volcano of emotions and experiences came from.

About the author

Pavel Sanaev ("Bury me behind the plinth" - his most famous story) - Russian writer, publicist and translator, actor. Born in 1969. He is the adopted son of the famous director Rolan Bykov.

Engaged in translations, including simultaneous translations of pirated films. He was a co-author of the scripts for many now popular tapes, including "On the Game", "Last Weekend", "Zero Kilometer".

Story

The story "Bury me behind the plinth" Pavel Sanaev, according to his confession, dedicated to his grandmother, with whom he lived from four to eleven years old.

He called his grandmother's love and care "tyrannical", "violent" "devastating".

It is in memory of the grandmother and her tyranny, the difficult character and the crazy atmosphere that reigned in the house where the boy spent his childhood, that the story "Bury me behind the plinth" was written (a summary of the book is waiting for you below).

According to the plot, the progressive director Sergei Snezhkin made a film of the same name. The film evoked many responses of a different nature. Pavel Sanaev himself explained in conversations with journalists many aspects of the book, which were shown in the cinema in a completely different way.

The writer was disappointed with the film, refused to co-author the script, arguing that once he had already said everything clearly, the second time he simply could not do it with inspiration and a spark.

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The story begins with a short introduction, where the narrator introduces himself as a second grade boy Sasha Saveliev, who lives with his grandmother, because his mother "traded him for a bloodsucker dwarf". He calls himself a "heavy peasant" on his grandmother's neck, which immediately sets the reader in a specific way. These are clearly not the words of a boy; the grandmother's attitude towards him immediately becomes clear. But not everything is so clear. We present a summary of several chaptersstory.

Bathing

In it we learn how the boy's bath goes. Grandmother barricades the bathroom door with blankets, brings in a heater (reflector), heats the water to 37.7 degrees. She is convinced that the slightest draft can make the boy sick.

"Bury me behind the plinth" (a summary is in front of you, but it will not convey all the feelings described in the book, we advise you to read the full version) - a work filled with grandmother's feelings, her excessive, painful care for the boy.

At the same time, she constantly curses her grandson, calling him "rotting", wants to "rot in prison". Her communication is constantly interrupted by curses. They concern not only the boy, but also the grandfather, and acquaintances, and random people.

Morning

The book "Bury me behind the plinth" (a summary of the story is presented in the article) consists of short stories.

Sasha wakes up from his own scream. He gets up and goes to the kitchen. He sees that the grandmother is not in a good mood.

A china teapot falls out of her grandmother's hands and breaks, she falls exhausted on the bed, saying that she is about to die. The grandfather (called the "stinky old man" by the grandmother) and the boy try to console her, for which they receive more curses and screams.

Grandpa acts as a silent witness to grandma's outbursts. He tries not to anger or reproach her, so as not to cause a wave of explosive anger.

The story "Bury me behind the plinth" (a summary should be read only if there is no time, be surewe advise you to read the full version of the work) is filled with remarks and explanations of the author. One of them is below.

After this section, a small correction follows, in which the author says that the grandmother's curses are not his fiction and exaggeration. It also reduces them to some extent, avoiding unprintable "combinations".

Cement

There was a MADI construction site next to the boy's house. He loved to go there with a friend. There he felt free and rested from his grandmother. But she forbade him to go there. The boy could only get into the territory of MADI secretly, when he was let out for a walk in the yard. Convinced that the boy was terribly ill, his grandmother gave him a homeopathic remedy six times a day. One day she did not find him in the yard. The boys, having heard an angry cry, rushed to her. However, this did not save Sasha. She saw that the boy was sweating, and this was a terrible "fault", followed by a reprimand with lamentations and dressing up.

Somehow Sasha and his friend ran away from the older guys and fell into a pit with cement. The grandmother's furious indignation knew no bounds, she cursed and wished her grandson "to drown next time in cement completely."

Because of the grandmother's insane compassion and her name-calling, the janitor in the yard called Sasha the "Savelevsky idiot".

Pavel Sanaev ("Bury me behind the plinth", the summary of which we are considering is his most famous work) shows many funny and sad situations that happened toboy. It is as if fate itself is trying to show grandmother that she is acting wrong.

White ceiling

Sasha remembers that he went to school very rarely, 7-10 days a month. Grandmother took home assignments and class exercises from the excellent student Svetochka, constantly praising and setting the girl as an example to Sasha. She worked with her grandson until he lost her strength, scratching out mistakes in a notebook with a razor.

Somehow the boy made a mistake and wrote the same syllable twice in a word. This brought the grandmother to hysterics, in which she either screamed that she did not know the boy, she did not have a grandson, or repeated the meaningless "white ceiling".

Salmon

The story begins with a description of the apartment. She had two rooms. One room belonged to my grandfather, where he slept on a fold-out but never fold-out couch. There was also a huge sideboard, nicknamed the sarcophagus.

There were two refrigerators in the kitchen, one contained food, and the other contained canned food and caviar for doctors, through which the grandmother constantly drove the boy.

In this chapter, from a conversation between grandfather and friend Lesha, the reader learns about his grandmother's mental illness.

Culture Park

Sasha has long dreamed of riding the rides in the park. Once, after a visit to a homeopath, he managed to drag his grandmother there. But she did not allow the boy to ride on any of the rides, but only bought ice cream, which she promised to give at home. On the way home, the delicacy melted. Only a puddle remained of him, in which documents, money and tests were safely drowned.

Zheleznovodsk

Grandpa Senya got tickets to Zheleznovodsk. Grandma and Sasha went there by train.

The boy absolutely loved the toilet on the train, especially the shiny flush pedal. When the grandmother left the compartment, Sasha rushed to the toilet, opening the door with his elbows, because there was an "infection". But he failed to get back without incident, and in front of his grandmother, he collapsed right on the floor in the dominance of "germs, dysentery and staphylococcus".

The end of the story

In this story, on behalf of the boy, the reader will learn the origins of such an unusual, surreal title of the story.

Its author is Sasha Savelyev. Intimidated by his grandmother's lamentations and wishes for death, the boy was sure that he would soon die. Death seemed to him something terribly inevitable, terrible. He was terribly afraid of her. And one day he decided that the best place for his burial would not be a cemetery, but "behind the plinth" in his mother's apartment. For him to lie there and watch his mother walk, see her every day.

The conflict between the mother and grandmother of little Sasha in the story grows towards the end. One day mom comes and picks up Sasha. Together with her husband, they make it clear to the grandmother that they will not give her their son. Sasha stays with her mother, while her grandmother dies…

So completed "Bury me behind the plinth" Sanaev P. (summary of several stories, see above). The story is very ambiguous and causes a range of feelings. The style and language of the story seems to immerse us in the world of childhood. But not a happy childhoodbut terrifying, surreal, grandmother's cynicism completely dug up with shovels and insane, sizzling love, which is difficult to call such. The story is certainly worth reading in its entirety, but this is not a book to be enjoyed over a cup of tea.