Vasily Shukshin "Cut off". Brief narrative content

Many people know the writer, director, actor Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. In 1970 he wrote a short story. Vasily Shukshin called him "Cut off". The brief content will help the reader to quickly get acquainted with the plot of the work, learn about the heroes of the narrative. There are both positive characters, and negative.

The story begins with how her son Konstantin Ivanovich came to visit his mother Agafya Zhuravlyova in the village. He arrived not alone, but together with his wife and daughter. This is the beginning of a writer in his story. Why did he name his work Shukshin "Cut"? The main characters will help answer this question.

Gleb Kapustin

The main characters of the narrative are already acquainted with the reader. But it would be incomplete without mentioning Gleb Kapustin. It is no accident that on the day of the arrival of Konstantin Ivanovich and his wife Valentina, the peasants gathered on the porch of Kapustin. They already had a chance to visit famous people who came to the village.

These were many. Though the village was small, it can boast of two pilots, a correspondent, a doctor and even a colonel. Everyone remembered exactly how Kapustin planted him in a puddle. A dispute arose about who in 1812 gave the order to burn Moscow. The colonel either did not know, or mixed it up, but said that it was Rasputin. It was the triumph of Hleb, who knew the right answer. All then remembered how skillfully Kapustin scored a moral victory over the colonel. As Shukshin said by the lips of the peasants, he "cut off". A brief summary tells how Gleb behaved at Agafia's house.

Discussion about anything

It was decided to go to Zhuravlev. The men came into the house. They were greeted cordially, set the table. Here and then the conversation began. Kapustin asked Konstantin Ivanovich, how now science determines weightlessness? He replied that the same as before. Then Gleb asked how Zhuravlev relates to the problem of shamanism. He said that there was no such problem, but Kapustin did not stop. He began to argue that people with tambourines are there, but problems, so no? The next question Kapustin, as Shukshin says, cut off. The summary is coming to the end of the story.

The demagogue asked Konstantin Ivanovich's opinion on the Moon. Rumor has it that the moon is the creation of the mind. Kapustin himself, if he had met an alien intellect, would begin to talk with him through schemes. He would draw our planet and point a hand at himself, so that the creature of another civilization knew where he came from.

Vasily Shukshin "Cut off". Summary ends narration

Zhuravlyov at the same time looked, smiling at Valentine, but Kapustin could not forgive that smirk and began a verbal attack. He said that candidates are also useful sometimes to read the press. If Zhuravlev drove a taxi with five suitcases, this does not mean that he surprised everyone. Kapustin continued, saying that before you go to the people, you need to try to be more modest and restrained. Constantine and his wife looked at Gleb in perplexity. But he looked at them victoriously and, having said goodbye, left with his friends.

Such a small story was written by a talented person. Now it is understandable why Shukshin called his story "Cut" Shukshin. The brief content acquainted the reader with this work.