Soviet writer Yevgeny Permyak. Biography, features of creativity, fairy tales and stories of Evgeny Permyak

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Evgeny Permyak is a famous Soviet writer and playwright. In his work, Evgeny Andreevich turned to both serious literature, reflecting social reality and the relationship of people, and to children's literature. And it was the latter that brought him the greatest fame.

Evgeny Permyak: biography

Permyak is the pseudonym of the author, his real name was Wissov. Evgeny Andreevich Vissov was born in 1902, on October 31, in the city of Perm. However, in the very first year of his life he was sent with his mother to Votkinsk. In childhood, the future author returned to his native city, visited relatives, but the visits were short and rare. Little Zhenya spent most of his childhood and early years in Votkinsk.

Even before Zhenya went to school, he often had to visit the Votkinsk plant, where his aunt worked. The writer himself said that he looked into open-hearth furnaces earlier than into the primer, and made friends with the tools even before he got acquainted with the multiplication table.

Work

BVotkinsk, Evgeny Permyak graduated from high school, and then joined the Kupinsky meat station as a clerk. Then he managed to work at the Perm candy factory "Record". At the same time, he tried to get a job as a proofreader in the newspapers Krasnoye Prikamye and Zvezda. He published articles and poems, signing as "Master Nepryakhin". He was appointed to the director's place in the drama club at the workers' club. Tomsky.

Soon in Votkinsk, Evgeny also received a correspondent ticket (1923), which was issued in the name of Vissov-Nepryakhin.

Higher education

In 1924, Evgeny Permyak (then still Wissov) entered the Perm University at the socio-economic department of the pedagogical faculty. He explained his desire to get a higher education by the fact that he wants to work in public education. Having entered the university, Eugene plunged headlong into social activities. He was engaged in various club work, took part in the organization of the circle of the so-called Living Theatrical Newspaper (ZHTG), which was very popular in those years.

Already later, in 1973, Evgeny Permyak will fondly remember the years he spent at the university. He will give a special place to memories of ZhTG, he will tell that the students called it "Forge". The name is due to the fact that Perm University was the only one in the Urals. And it was he who became the place where chemists, doctors, teachers, etc. were "forged"

Newspaper issue

Each issue of the new issue of the Forge became a real sensation for the university. Firstly,because the newspaper has always been topical. Secondly, criticism in it has always been bold and very merciless. And thirdly, it was always very spectacular. The fact is that ZhTG was a newspaper that was presented only on stage. Therefore, the audience could also enjoy music, songs, dances and recitatives. A large university hall gathered for each graduation, and there were no empty seats. In addition, the newspaper often went out with issues. The Living Newspaper was hugely popular.

The stories of Evgeny Permyak, and he himself as a writer, were then unknown. But his social activities did not go unnoticed. Often the student was sent to the All-Union Congress of Club Workers, held in Moscow, where he represented his PSU.

However, despite all this, student life itself was not easy. Despite the scholarship and small fees for articles in newspapers, there was still very little money. Therefore, Wissow moonlighted. Only one place of his work during this period is known for certain - a water utility, where he served as a water supply inspector throughout the summer of 1925.

Capital

After graduating from the university, Evgeny Andreevich went to the capital, where he began his career as a playwright. Very soon he gained recognition thanks to the plays “Roll”, “The Forest is Noisy”. They were delivered and went on almost all stages of the country.

During the Great Patriotic War the writer was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. He spent all the war years in this city. In those years, many other well-knownwriters: Agniya Barto, Lev Kassil, Fedor Gladkov, Olga Forsh, Ilya Sadofiev and others. Permyak was familiar with many of them.

In those years, the stories of Evgeny Permyak were already known. Therefore, it is not surprising that P. P. Bazhov, who headed the Sverdlovsk organization of writers, often invited Yevgeny Andreevich to visit him. Soon their conversations about writing turned into friendships.

The writer died in Moscow in 1982, on August 17.

Evgeny Permyak: stories for children and other works

The years spent in Votkinsk, Perm and Sverdlovsk are reflected in such works of the writer as:

• "High steps";
• “The ABC of our life”;
• "Childhood of Mauritius";
• "Grandpa's piggy bank";
• "Solva's Memories";
• "Memorial knots".

Permyak paid great attention to the theme of labor, it was especially acute in his novels:

• "Last frost";
• "The Tale of the Gray Wolf";
• "Kingdom of Silent Luthon", etc.

Besides, Permyak wrote a number of books for children and young men:

• "Grandpa's piggy bank";
• "What to be?";
• "Keyless lock";
• "From the fire to the cauldron", etc.

But the writer's tales are the most popular. The most famous of them:

• "Magic colors";
• "Someone else's gate";
• "Birch Grove";
• "Tricky Rug";
• "Missing Threads";
• "About a hurried marten and a patient tit";
• "Candle";
• "Deuce";
• "Who grinds the flour?";
• "Disgruntled person";
• "Small galoshes";
• Golden Nail;
• "To all the colors of the rainbow";
• Kite.

Features of creativity

Evgeny Permyak focused on the pressing problems of society. The writer's books have always reflected the problems of his contemporary time. Even his fairy tales were close to reality and full of political overtones.

In ideological and artistic terms, the novels were based on a clash of events and characters that reflect the spirit of the times. For Permyak, modernity was not a background, but the main content that determined the conflicts of the narrative and formed a whole system. The author combined in his work topicality, lyricism and at the same time satire. For this, he was often reproached for his publicism and excessive sharpness of characters and situations. However, Permyak himself considered this a merit of his works.