The book and the play "Bury me behind the plinth": reviews. "Bury me behind the skirting board-2" ("Chronicles razdolbaya"): reviews of readers and critics

What does the world around look like in the eyes of the boy who became the subject of family quarrels? A child experiences loneliness, pain, and sometimes a sense of guilt. All this lays a heavy stone on his soul and does not leave without a trace. Such was the childhood of the director, actor and screenwriter Pavel Sanayev. In his first artwork he left about the experiences he had experienced. "Bury me behind the plinth" is not memoirs or memories, but an attempt to forgive close people for the pain that they inflicted on him out of love and weakness, selfishness and selflessness.

Prehistory

Pavel Sanaev - continuer of the acting dynasty. In the sixth grade he performed one of the main roles in the film of his stepfather Rolan Bykov "Scarecrow". The film was dedicated to the difficult relationship among adolescents. In this picture, Paul's mother played the role of school teacher. For a novice actor, participation in the filming of Rolan Bykov's film became not only the beginning of the creative path, but also an acquaintance with the surrounding social world. Before the first appearance on the set, Pavel experienced an acute lack of communication. The fact is that the boy first years of his life was fenced not only from communicating with peers, but even from the necessary maternal love.

How did the book

In high school Paul began to create some literary sketches. He supplemented the written, corrected, and only eight years later was a full-fledged artistic work, which was called "Bury me behind the plinth".

Reviews about the book were both positive and negative. Some believed that the story of Sanayev - an entertaining work, not devoid of black humor. Others saw in picturesque and very unpleasant images, the author's desire to take revenge on his family for the wrongs done. Still others heartily regretted the boy, who was in such unbearable conditions.

Despite the fact that the book depicts the parents of Elena Sanaeva, that is, the grandparents of the author of the sensational book, it should be remembered that the story "Bury me behind the plinth" is not a documentary but an artwork. Reviews about the book, as the desire of the writer to blacken their relatives, can hardly be called objective. The writer changed the names of his close people. The protagonist calls Sasha Saveliev. Mother - Olga. My stepfather does not even have a name. Grandmother and grandfather called him not as a dwarf-bloodsucker.

Grandmother's image

Sanaev wrote a book, the material for which was his own experience. The image of the main character - eccentric and unbalanced grandmother - is taken from life, but supplemented with elements of artistic fiction. This woman terrorizes the eight-year-old Sasha with his love and limitless care, and he finally comes to the conclusion that soon he will be overtaken by death, and so he suddenly had the idea that it was necessary to leave a small but clear testament in which the only requirement would be "Bury Me behind the baseboard. "

Comments on the book that the grandson wrote, Vsevolod and Lydia Sanayev did not leave, because they passed away before it was published. The work of art ends with the death of my grandmother. In real life, Lydia Sanayeva died a few years before the publication of her grandson's book. The author himself once admitted that he could never publish his story in her lifetime.

Lydia Sanayeva

The story begins with the chapter "Bathing". The reader already from the first lines understands that the book is not dedicated to a kind and affectionate grandmother. Although she does not deprive her grandson of care at all. Throughout the story, the grandmother prophesies to her grandson a lot of troubles, wants to "rot in prison" and predicts an early painful death. Curse and curses the woman utters, not looking up from the fulfillment of her duty. She prepares for Sasha a diet breakfast, arranges complicated bath procedures for him, pushes him with pills. In general, it does everything to make the boy die not so early, as much as she would like ...

Both in the book and in the interview the author of the story asserts that in it he laid out not the whole truth about his early years. Grandmother actually chose expressions that were much tougher. But there is no point in providing such unsightly details. After all, the book is not about madness, but about love, which kills, maims, causes an indelible spiritual wound.

Grandmother reminds his grandson daily that he has very little left to live on. Though madly loved it. Regular conversations about illness and death can not but affect the perception of the world around us. Sasha, in spite of his young age, began to think about death as something quite ordinary. And, of course, it does not occur to him that the behavior of the closest person in his life is somewhat different from the standard, inherent in a mentally healthy person.

Criticism

In the late nineties Pavel Sanayev managed to publish his work in one of the literary magazines. Only in 2003 in a separate edition appeared the story "Bury me behind the plinth". Reviews about the book were diverse. In childhood memories, there is humor and sadness. They can like, and are able to get irritated. But the fact that the book created a man of talent, it is hardly possible to doubt.

Film

In 2009, the story "Bury me behind the plinth" was screened. Reviews about the movie Sanaev left extremely negative. The author of the cult book did not like the film, primarily because the actress, who played the main female role, did not cope with the task. This is undoubtedly the fault of the director. Svetlana Kryuchkova - an outstanding Soviet and Russian actress - played a grandmother on one note. Everyone who read the work could not help but admit that the created screen image has little to do with the literary image. The very same actress in the interview said that many important episodes were cut at the insistence of the film's producer.

The role of Lidia Sanayeva was originally planned to be taken by her daughter. But after the author of the story and the script refused to work, everything changed. The main role was invited to another actress. Later, Elena Sanayeva admitted that it would be unbearably hard for her to play her own mother.

Vsevolod Sanaev

Grandfather Sasha Savelyeva - a soft man, and in everything inferior to his wife. His prototype is Vsevolod Sanaev - a Soviet actor known for the films "Behind Us Moscow", "Return of St. Luke", "Forgotten Melody for Flute" and others.

Father of Sasha's mother plays an important role in the story "Bury me behind the plinth". Reviews about the film by Pavel Sanayev are somewhat different from the viewers and film critics regarding the book of the same name. Anyone who read Sanayev's autobiographical novel, as a rule, takes a disapproving look at the picture of Sergei Snezhkin. But the grandfather of the main character in the film was played by an outstanding actor Alexei Petrenko. And the image that he created on the screen, perhaps, is not inferior to the literary.

It was with the help of this character that the writer was able to show the extent of grandmother's tyranny and insanity. Most of the work is devoted to depicting the attitude and life in the house in which Sasha lives. And if the boy can not interfere with the explosions of aggression and the inappropriate behavior of his grandmother because of his age, then her husband is theoretically capable of this. But he keeps silent, fawns before her, resignedly obeys all her demands. And only once, he explodes, leaves the house. In order to return again after a few hours. He can not overcome domestic tyranny. This is not enough strength and perseverance and the mother of the main character.

While reading the story, the grandmother, despite all her oddities, causes pity. Her tragedy is not only in a mental disorder, but also in the indifference of her husband, who in his younger years did not give his wife due attention. She alone fought for the life of the first child. But the boy died, and several years later Olga appeared - Sasha's mother - a sickly and stubborn girl. His father was no longer on tour, on creative business trips. He did not notice how his wife turned into an elderly hysterical woman.

Elena Sanayeva

This actress is the prototype of Olga - Sasha's mother. Elena Sanaeva, the children of the Soviet period, first of all remembered the role of Lisa Alisa in the film, in which she played a fabulous role in a duet with her husband.

The image of Olga is depicted with the help of the boy's inner experiences in the story "Bury me behind the plinth". The book, critics' reviews about which are often devoted to the author's fine art style, have not been adequately screened to date.

In the film directed by Sergei Snezhkin, Sasha's mother, for unknown reasons, is more like a depressed, weak lady who, instead of fighting for her son, drinks cognac with her lover. After that, the couple rushes to the dance. The trust is much more caused by the heroine Svetlana Kryuchkova. Even in spite of her hysterical cries and peculiar curse. She shows, though quite peculiar, care for the boy.

What does Pavel Sanaev think about the film? "Bury me behind the plinth", reviews of which are extremely enthusiastic, was criticized by the author of the story. Initially, it was assumed that the director of the film will be Sanaev himself. But at the last moment the author of the work refused, because he was not sure that he would be able to devote as much energy to the creation of the picture as was spent on writing the book. Producers had to look for another director. They became Sergei Snezhkin, whose opinion was at variance with the position of the author of the script, not only with respect to the cast. Snezhkin significantly changed the plot.

In the film, according to Sanayev's script, remarkable actors are involved. But even their talented game could not save the picture, which the author of the story called "chernukha". The film contains naturalistic details, which, in the opinion of critics, are superfluous. And most importantly, the main idea of Pavel Sanayev is not observed. The image of the grandmother in the film is too unambiguous.

What do they think about the film adaptation of the work of Sanayev, the performers of the main roles in the film "Bury me behind the plinth"? Reviews of the movie actors are diverse. The performer of the main role asserts that her image has been substantially changed as a result of editing. Maria Shukshina, who played Sasha's mother, did not share her impressions of the filming. However, most viewers believe that the choice of director in favor of this actress was not the most successful.

Dwarf-bloodsucker

This character is almost not present in the book, but is, nevertheless, central. It was because of the dwarf bloodsucker that her mother left her son. And it is because of him that the sick old woman is forced to take care of the morbid "rotting" boy. At least, in this from an early age the grandmother-tyrant convinces his grandson. But Sasha once already saw this terrible dwarf, and did not find anything repulsive in him.

His stepfather, director and actor Rolan Bykov dedicated Pavel Sanayev's story "Bury me behind the plinth." Reviews of critics about this work sometimes, perhaps, were not favorable. It does not fit a man from the family of celebrities to take dirty linen out of the hut. But the image of his stepfather, which later turned out to be by no means eerie, the author depicted with deep respect and love. Wise, talented and understanding described it Sanaev in his first story. The same writer portrayed his stepfather in an artwork about the misadventures of Razdolbaya. The book "Bury me behind the skirting board - 2", reviews about which were not so stormy, still took a worthy place in the modern literature.

"Bury me behind the plinth" (play)

Reviews of theatrical productions and screen versions are more often negative. And this is not surprising. The publication of Sanayev's book became a sensation in the literary world. And the more resonant the book evokes, the more closely the critics look at the embodiment of the author's story on stage or on the screen. In Igor Konyaev's production, which premiered in 2007 at the Baltiysky Dom Theater, the role of the boy was played by the more than mature actor Igor Sklyar. About the performance critics responded far from enthusiastic. Most of the viewers liked the production. The performer of the main role won the highest theater prize "Golden Soffit".

Not only Igor Konyaev inspired the plot of the story "Bury me behind the plinth". Reviews about the play (Krasnoyarsk) Alexei Kriklivoy more often approving, which can not be said about the staging of the St. Petersburg director, and even more so about the film adaptation under the leadership of Sergei Snezhkin. The main theme of the work of Pavel Sanayev is love and forgiveness.

The naturalistic details and cursing of the grandmother are given by the author of the story exactly as much as necessary. The main idea of the writer was able to translate Alexey Kriklivy on the theatrical stage of the Krasnoyarsk theater. Grandmother - not an odious monster, but an unhappy lonely man. This woman searches for love all her life, but she can not really accept and appreciate her. In the production of Screaming, life is vividly depicted, there are many trifles that are easily recognizable by the spectators of the generation to which Pavel Sanayev belongs: a T-shirt with the emblem of the Olympic bear, children's movies of the eighties, a popular game of knifes.

How did the prototypes of the protagonists react to the book?

Creating his first work of art, Pavel Sanayev did not doubt the success. And even after in the first publishing house his creation was rejected, he was not upset. Next to him were the most reliable reviewers - mother and stepfather. Rolan Bykov liked the story. She made a strong impression on Elena Sanayeva. In one of the interviews Sanaev said that the mother was most acutely concerned with reading the last chapter, which describes the funeral of the grandmother.

Continuation

A few years after the publication of the first book, Sanaev proceeded to write "Bury me behind the plinth-2". Reviews about the work of this author are most actively left by readers belonging to the generation of the eighties. Works Sanayev allow you to plunge into the past. And even those who grew up in an atmosphere of love and understanding, his books can not remain indifferent. Sanaev skillfully conveys the atmosphere of everyday life that prevailed in those years in almost every house.

The Chronicles of Broke does not include many psychologically difficult scenes, such as the grandmother's monologue in the first novel. But also in this work the atmosphere in which those who are today around forty grown up is gifted. Nostalgia for childhood and the passing past is something that, above all, attracts readers in this book.