Vasily Bykov - writer, public figure, participants in the Great Patriotic War. He was a member of the Writers' Union. Awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Writer of Belarus. He was a laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the Byelorussian SSR and the USSR.
Almost everything in all the books of Vasily (Vasil) Bykov shows the moral choice of people in difficult moments. Many of his works take place in the Great Patriotic War. She became the most tragic for the country. However, like other tragedies, it generated a lot of talented authors.
True war
Former war veterans, who knew firsthand about the attacks, became narrators of a difficult time. One of these authors was Vasil Vladimirovich Bykov. He talked about the moral choice that a person had to make in the most difficult moments. Among the first writers he told about the "trench truth", about an incredible amount of fear.
He said that not only cowards can be afraid. The punitive organs caused considerable horror. A prose writer was born in the Belarusian village of Bychki in 1924, on June 19. Much of the occupation remained in the memory of the inhabitants for a long time. Bykov told readers about this. He talked about what happened to his fellow citizens.
Every resident of Belarus became a warrior, contributing to the victory, regardless of the availability of weapons and the ability to handle them. The theme of war is invariably raised in all the books of the writer. In 1941, the future famous prose writer turned seventeen. He was distinguished by artistic abilities.
The young man studied at the sculpture department. In 1940 he left training and went to work. Externs were passed exams for graduating school class. At the front, Bykov became a platoon, taking one of the most dangerous posts. The officer received several awards, was wounded.
He managed to survive by a miracle. His name was on the lists of those buried in a mass grave. The mother who received the funeral learned only after a long time that her son was alive. Vasil got to the hospital after being wounded, there he was put on his feet, and he again went to fight. From the native lands, the future writer reached Romania and Austria.
He could write a book on behalf of a generation that has almost disappeared from life. After the victory, Vasil Vladimirovich served ten years. Since 1955, as he wrote for the newspaper Grodno Pravda, feuilletons with essays. In 1956, the first literary works began to be published in local publications. Most of the work was devoted to partisans and soldiers. However, several works do not affect military topics.
Literary work
At the very beginning of the work, Bykov released a small collection of humorous stories. The writer called the start of his career in 1951. During his stay in the Kuril Islands, he wrote "The Conspirator" and "The Death of a Man." The war has become the main and almost the only theme of his work.
In the works, the author showed people who fell on the line between death and life, almost always ending in death. All heroes have to stay to the limit. One of Bykov’s books is the story “Sotnikov”. The work shows the fragility of the moral foundations of the hero. He becomes a traitor.
The high artistic value of the front-line story lies in the fact that the author not only talks about the hardships of wartime, but also the painfulness of the moral trials experienced by many. For the right choice in an emergency, mental strength is needed.
Understanding of duty and responsibility inspire accomplishments. In the story "Wolf Pack", for example, Levchuk saved a baby. The hero, "Live Until Dawn, " Lieutenant Ivanovsky, even after being seriously wounded, does not stop fighting. In the genre of lieutenant prose, several works were published in the sixties. They all found their reader.
Crane Shout, Front Page and Third Rocket managed to put the creator on par with the most talented of the front-line writers. During this period, the term "lieutenant prose" was born. The works of this direction had a significant impact on the spiritual life of the period. Criticism took the innovation hostilely.
Edited by Twardowski's “New World”, where Bykov’s works were mostly published, was subjected to a devastating attack. Especially criticized were "Attack on the move, " "It Doesn’t Hurt the Dead, " "Kruglyansky Bridge." As a result, the last essay came out ten years later, “Attack on the move” had to lie down to the eighties.
