Yanka Bryl, "Galya": a short summary of the story

It is surprising and at the same time very pleasant that with the development of information technologies the interest of the reading public towards the cultural heritage of the past does not run low. For example, the younger generation often has an interest in reading the work written by Yanka Bryl, "Galya" (a short summary of the story will be presented in this material). This is natural, since the pen of Yanka Bryl holds many samples of artistic prose.

The childhood and youth of the national writer of the BSSR Ivan Antonovich Bryl were held in Western Belorussia. With this region, most of his narratives are related, in which the life of the common people is described. One of the most significant literary works of the author is the story, published in print in 1953.

A touching story about the difficult female fate (Yanka Bryl, "Galya")

The brief content of the first part of the story is reduced to describing the events unfolding in the post-war Belarusian village, which until 1939 was part of Poland. A woman named Galya lives with her teenage son Antos and daughter Sonechka in a remote village.

The daily life of the family is connected with working in the field and caring for pets. All the hard work lies on the fragile shoulders of a woman and her children. Galina's husband is serving a long prison sentence for speculation, and his parents died before the war. On short summer nights, a woman remembers her youth, years of life with a hated man - the father of her children.

Great love and ruined youth

In the continuation of the story (Yanka Bryl, "Galya"), the summary contains the memories of the main character about the past youth. Her father Galya did not know, her mother - farmer Maryl, raised her daughter alone. Although they called the girl in the village a bastard (illegitimate, fatherless), but this nickname did not stick to her. Gallia grew up well and hard-working, many children in the village looked at her beauty. But the girl's heart belonged only to one - a cheerful harmonious Sergei. Only a week lasted their happiness, and then the guy suddenly disappeared.

Here the orphan son of a well-to-do farmer, Mykola, wooed. Galya did not want to answer his courtship, but where could he go? For a girl from the poorest family in the village it was a great honor to marry a rich man. Especially Galia knew that her beloved Seryozha was arrested for his connection with the communist underground and it is not known whether he will be able to escape from the gendarmerie dungeons.

Yanka Bryl, "Galya": a brief summary of the final part

After the wedding, there was a young woman on the farm, where her gray routine began to flow, filled with hard work and mockery from her husband and his parents. The years passed, the Second World War ended, and the territory where the village was located became part of Soviet Belarus. Day and night, the noise of agricultural machinery is heard on collective farm fields.

Galya knows that Sergey is working on one of the tractors. Galina's children grew up, but in her heart, love for this person is still not fading. Will they ever meet? Will Galya be happy? Yanka Bryl, the short story of which you just read, as if intentionally leaving the narrative unfinished, suggesting the reader to independently think out the further development of the plot.