Vladimir Krupin. Biography, creativity of the writer

Vladimir Krupin is a representative of the so-called village prose. He is known primarily due to the collection of stories "Zerna" and such works as "Living Water", "Forgive Me, Farewell ...", "Love Me As I Love You".

In his creative way there were different periods. Among them - and the time of complete oblivion. Today, the books of the Russian writer are published regularly. In addition, Vladimir Krupin became the first winner of the Patriarchal literary award. Biography and creativity of the Russian prose writer is the topic of the article.

Childhood

The future writer was born in a small village of the Kirov region two months after the start of the Great Patriotic War. Children's memories of Vladimir Krupin reflected in the collection "Vyatka Notebook." In the stories that were included in this book, the writer tells not only about the military time, but also about the destinies of completely different people.

Vladimir Krupin is a Russian novelist, for whom the theme of love for a small motherland has become almost the main thing in creativity. Childhood writer, like the early years of many of his peers, was not easy. After graduation he worked as a loader, a milling cutter, a locksmith. For some time he worked in a local village newspaper as a correspondent. About the hard work of the peasant Vladimir Krupin knew firsthand. He, like many children of the war who lived in the villages, spent most of the summer holidays in the garden or on haymaking.

A family

Vladimir Krupin is called an Orthodox writer. This is not surprising. After all, a future writer was brought up in an atypical Soviet family. Church rites to him were known since childhood. Among the relatives, of course, there were Pioneers and Komsomols. But on Easter at Krupiny's house the holiday table was invariably prepared, white white shirts were put on. However, the church did not go, because it was destroyed. And the grandfather of the future writer was arrested only for the fact that he refused to work on the Great Orthodox holiday.

Student years

After three years of military service, Vladimir Krupin submitted documents to the Literary Institute . Gorky. However, he did not pass through the competition and entered the Pedagogical Institute, the Faculty of Russian Philology.

At the time of receiving the diploma, Krupin was married and lived with his wife in a communal apartment. The time was not easy. I had to work a lot, write scripts for television. But for creativity even in those years Krupin found time. And despite the fact that he could not publish his works for a long time. Only in 1974 he was able to publish his first collection of short stories Vladimir Krupin.

Books

The creative way of the writer began with the publication of poems, essays and reports. But the genre of "village prose" from his youth attracted him very much. In 1974 the works "Yamshchitskaya Vesti" and "Varvara" were published. At the same time, the "Zerna" collection was published.

The story "Living Water", which Vladimir Krupin wrote three years after his literary debut, brought widespread popularity. In this work there is also imagination, and humor, and sadness. The author narrates about a certain curative source that can cure a very common ailment in Russia - alcoholism.

"Time of a burning match"

This book is a collection of stories writer. It includes works that were previously published in literary magazines. The works of this collection are easily perceived and are accessible even to young readers. Good and bright teach the Russian prose writer Vladimir Krupin. "Books for children and adults" - this is how the fans of his work speak about the collections of the stories of this writer.

Writer-patriot

In the nineties, Vladimir Krupin began to publish works of art in which he expressed his state position. Thanks to these works, he received the reputation of a biased writer. The damage to the creative intelligentsia, the agony of the Russian village are the main themes of this period. Also, the writer acted as a publicist.

Krupin treats Russian folklore with special attention and love. In public and creative life, he expresses contempt for Western values, as is clearly shown in the story "Yankee, Go Home", and that slips in the work "Once, So Soon." The latter is a note of a young psychiatrist. Morals in the country at the turn of the century in this story are identified with the author's orders in the hospital for the mentally ill.

Feature of Krupin's prose

Mainly in the work of this writer is the House. In his stories he recreates it, based on memories of relatives, peasant life, folk wisdom inherent in the villagers. Another characteristic feature of Krupin's prose is open finals. And these endings are very lyrical and penetrating.

One of the largest works is devoted to the small homeland - Vyatka Notebook. According to critics, it is in this collection that classical examples of village prose are collected.

Favorite heroes of Krupin - holy fools, village men. These characters speak the truth, understand the true essence of events, although they express their thoughts quite tongue-tied. But it is these truth-lovers who oppose lies that have long taken root in Russian society, and provokes, according to the author, such phenomena as social apathy, indifference, drunkenness. The writer treats language very carefully. This is expressed not only in the rich literary style inherent in his works. It is known that the Russian prose writer has repeatedly opposed the use of borrowings from foreign languages in his native speech.

Later works of Krupin are devoted to the theme of Orthodoxy ("Velikoretskaya font", "The Last Times", "The Cross Procession"). Since the mid-nineties, the writer teaches at the theological academy, and is also the chief editor of one of the Christian journals.