Аннотация: Kozlov in boots. A story about literary success in the style of Dragunsky.
Kozlov in boots. A story about literary success in the style of Dragunsky.
Recently I met a big interview with Denis Dragunsky.
How much I have heard about the stories by Dragunsky. But I never read them.
Once on the radio I heard a story. There, the boy, the protagonist, gathered cucumbers in a foreign field. He was so tired to carry them, that, in the end, he threw them away.
The story is good. I like it. Did Dragunsky write it?
Quickly I made a search: "Books by Dragunsky, download free."
And so, I am reading the stories by Dragunsky.
The main character is Denis Korablev.
"Ivan Kozlovsky's glory",
"From top to bottom, obliquely",
"A cat in boots",
"Englishman Pavlya" ...
If I am trying to decipher the laws of success of Heinrich Schliemann, then why not to decipher the laws of Dragunsky's literary success.
Firstly, it necessary to write - to some extent - about yourself or your family.
Let's start with the women's team of painters and with the paint they left during the lunch break (story "From top to bottom, obliquely") ...
Or not, I'd better start with self-development (Story "Englishman Pavlya").
Yes, ... with self-development ...
Sometime in my childhood, this was probably the era of kindergarten, for the first time I felt the inclinations of a writing figure.
The yard between the apartment buildings was spacious, with flower beds, with flowers and trees. A mulberries tree grew in this yard. A good tree, which we, children, climbed and plucked, ate delicious fruits. It was believed that this tree was planted by my grandfather.
Apparently, this tree gave me a confidence. And one day I appeared in the yard next to this tree, holding a notebook and a pencil.
Oh, I didn't come across a story by the children's writer Kozlovsky in my childhood, I didn't learn (in time) that I should not go out into the yard to the children's company with a pencil and a notebook!
As a writing person (journalist? literary human?) I began to write down in this notebook what I saw around.
What have I seen? I saw my childhood buddies. Basically, these were guys who lived either in neighboring entrances, or in neighboring apartment buildings.
Who then, at the time of the recordings, was next to me? I don't remember that now. And even then, most likely, I did not set myself the goal of memorizing names ...
For some reason, my buddies did not like these recordings.
They surrounded me. They reacted somewhat aggressively to my recordings ...
The pencil flew to the ground ... And the notebook? What happened to the notebook? Did they break it? Or was it just ended up on the ground?
In any case, I clearly felt dissatisfaction on the part of my childhood buddies towards my writing employment ...
It taught me a lesson. I returned to a writing exercises closer to the age of forty years.
But there is also something to remember about the paint left by the team of painters (the story "From top to bottom, obliquely").
Repairs were being made in the next entrance. I am a preschool boy. Repair workers poured out a cement mortar next to the entrance. And they left somewhere. A winter. I have children's valenki on my feet.
We play, we run.
I step into this grout with my valenok. For the wool felt, from which the valenki were made, the cement mortar is not very useful ... My mother was a little unhappy ...
So, some of the childhood memories became a literary content.
Secondly, for success you need a movement of literary works in publishing houses, a circulation ...
Now it's necessary to attach a literary legs to these memories. In a such manner, that all this will be printed in millions of copies.
Author's surname? I can try "Zalessky".
And the name of the main character?
If not Kozlovsky (story "Ivan Kozlovsky's glory"), then - Kozlov.
Now I can look for a literary success ... (Everywhere - there are a thin a little secrets ...).
April 8, 2021 23:13
Translation from Russian into English: April 9, 2021 00:28.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Козлов в сапогах. Рассказ о литературном успехе в стиле Драгунского'.