In Soviet times, decades after the end of World War II, a number of works of art were created in which not the abstract image of the victorious people came to the fore, but the fate of individuals who went through the war. The authors of such literature in their work were guided by the principle of truthfulness and reliability. The topic of this article is one of such works and its summary. "Forever - Nineteen Years" - the story of Grigory Baklanov, a representative of the so-called lieutenant prose.
about the author
Grigory Baklanov was born in 1923. In the first year of the war he was drafted to the front. He graduated from the artillery school, fought on the South-West and the third Ukrainian fronts. In 1952, the future writer entered the Literary Institute and in the same year published his first work. Of course, the main theme in his work was his own experience, that is, everything that he witnessed during the war. In 1979, he wrote the considered work of the Cormorants (“Forever - Nineteen Years Old”). A summary of this book is outlined below.
Tretyakov
This is the name of the main character of the story. What theme did the work of Grigory Baklanov (“Forever - Nineteen Years Old”) devote to? A brief summary will answer this question. Thanks to a small curriculum vitae, it becomes clear that this writer spoke in his works about the war and its destructive power. But various authors wrote about this tragedy in different ways. And in summary, “Forever Nineteen Years” is a short story about a man whose dreams and plans were destroyed by a merciless war. Tretyakov forever remained young, like the twenty-five million Russian people who died during the most terrible war of the XX century.
Summary
Forever nineteen - people who did not live to see their twentieth birthday. One of them was Tretyakov. But not with the description of his hero, the story began by Grigory Baklanov ("Forever - Nineteen Years Old"). A summary of the work written thirty-odd years after the end of the war should begin with the first chapter. It refers to the terrible find of the crew of the crew. In the place where bloody battles were once fought, a feature film was shot. Only a buckle with a star testified that the body found in the trench belonged to the once Soviet officer.
To the front
What can the summary be about? “Forever Nineteen Years” is the story of the last days of a young lieutenant. Tretyakov graduated from college and went to the front. And along the way he meets military and civilians. Hunger and deprivation are everywhere. But even this unsightly picture may seem beautiful in comparison with what Tretyakov has yet to see. After all, the closer the front, the more tangible the traces of a terrible battle.
When the war began, Tretyakov was seventeen years old. His growing up occurred at the front. And here, from time to time, he recalled peacetime, his difficult relationship with his mother.
The worst military theme is the death of young people. And it’s precisely to her that Baklanov’s work “Forever Nineteen Years Old” is dedicated. A summary of the chapters may give a detailed description of the hero. But it is worth saying that in this story, the foreground is still the thoughts of the young lieutenant, his emotional experiences. To understand the tragedy of a person whose conscious life took place at the front, you can only read the work of Grigory Baklanov in full.
House memories
The conditions in which the lieutenant is located have a significant effect on his personality. He grows up and understands that it was impossible to comprehend a teenager living in a peaceful, quiet time. In the war, Tretyakov is aware of his stupidity and rigidity towards his mother. After the arrest of her husband, she married again. The son saw in this act a betrayal of an innocently convicted father. And only in the war, having seen many deaths and real human grief, Tretyakov realized that he was not entitled to condemn his mother.
First love
A very concise summary can be formulated. “Forever Nineteen Years” is the tragic story of a young lieutenant whose life was interrupted before he could begin. What could be worse than the death of a person who did not even have time to fall in love? During a stay in a hospital in the heart of Tretyakov, a pure tender feeling arises in relation to the girl Sasha. However, young people have no future. Their feeling will forever remain a small emotional outburst. It will never grow into strong trusting relationships that can bind people for years to come.
He dies, but until the last minutes of his life has never receded from his moral values. The hero of Baklanov is the personification of all the best that was in the Soviet soldier. The story "Forever - Nineteen Years" is a tribute to those who died on the battlefield, those who, like the famous Soviet poetess Drunin, were "not from childhood - from the war."