Аннотация: The Brief Review of the book by Henri Troyat "My so long road"
The Brief Review of the book by Henri Troyat "My so long road"
Sergei Sergeievich read a considerable part of the book by Henri Troyat "My so long road" ["Un si long chemin"].
A very complex, sincere, touching book.
It's too difficult to write a full review.
Once Sergei Sergeievich read the book by Henri Troyat about Nikolai Gogol.
Sergei Sergeievich paid attention to an episode - the sister Elizabeth asked Gogol to give her a wedding gift (a "special coach" [carriage]) - "The sister will not receive from him a kopek."...
The book "My So Long Road" is the "Henri Troyat's "Memoirs"..."
It is better to read it - completely.
Or - until a moment, when Henri Troyat for the first time visited (at nineteen-year age) André Maurois (about 1930).
Or - until a day, when the writer got his the first French literary award (1935). (The publication of his the first novel - 1935).
Or - till the receiving the Prix Goncourt (1938).
Or - till Henri Troyat's acceptance in members of the Académie française (the French Academy) (1959)...
"... Maurois invited me to himself. I went to him with strange feeling that I leave the habitual everyday life as if the country road, on which I went for a long time, brought of me, at last, to the wide busy highway." (about 1930).
"... One night dreamed me that Dostoyevsky enters my room." ['I saw a sleeping vision that Dostoyevsky enters my room'] (about 1938).
It is possible to remember both Ivan Bunin, and Émile Zola...
Ivan Bunin got the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933 (his first nomination - or the initiative of nomination - was in 1922. In this regard names of Kuprin, Merezhkovsky, Gorky and Balmont were also called then).
Ivan Bunin was immersed, involved in the emigrant environment, in the "themes of Russia."
Someone may see in Henri Troyat some "a french Ivan Bunin", which became the man of the French literature.
Henri Troyat after his acceptance in members of the French Academy had a possibility to see the President of France de Gaulle...
"I revere ... !" ("Near him even François Mauriac resembled the attentive pupil.")
Excellent, sincere, touching, unique book...
"What was the name of Henri Troyat's first wife?" - Sergei Sergeievich did not understand.
"The talented, capable, successful, lucky, fortunate, hard-working person", - Sergei Sergeievich thought with respect,. - "He managed to pick up [to find] keys to them ...".
On July 31, 2019 06:14
Translation from Russian into English: July 31, 2019 13:14.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Краткая рецензия на книгу Анри Труайя "Моя столь длинная дорога"'.