BARANSKY Natalia

BARANSKY, Natalia (p. 1908), Russian novelist, literary critic, art critic. Born 18 (31) December 1908 in St. Petersburg in the family physician. She graduated from the historical-philological faculty of Moscow State University in 1930 and in the same year - higher literature courses. Member of the Writers' Union since 1979. One of the oldest scientific workers of the State Museum of. Pushkin, in her own words, 'co-designed and built his exposition'.
Began to be published as a historian of Russian literature ( "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Radishshev and folklore 18 th century," 1952, "The Russian Revolutionary Movement," 1953; "Pushkin. Visual aid for middle school age ", 1971). Since 1960 serves as a novelist, is addressed mainly to young audiences. Typically, . stories and novels Baranskii differ undemanding plot, . flavor to the exact bytopisatelstvu, . interest in the psychological conflicts of everyday life, . for the apparent insignificance of which are hidden 'momentous' principles of conduct and Worldview, . highlights the difficult nature and circumstances (stories "Borin bicycle", . "Lushkin work", . U Nikitskie and Plyushchikha),
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Especially popular in the late 1960's - early 1970's became the story Baranskii Week as the week "(1969), translated into several foreign languages. In this tale of a person 26-year-old Muscovite - a talented scientist, . loving and beloved wife, . mother of two lovely kids - with convincing certainty shown, . as happy, . by definition, . and energetic woman in intolerable social and living conditions into a bustling, . taut creation, . torn between the work, . childcare, . rushing to the shops in search of food and natural at her age need to be attractive and desirable for her husband,


. Light, . barely perceptible irony, . soft humor, . lyricism informs the style of the writer 'Chekhov' tone, . penetrating tissue calmly objective, . seemingly, . deadpan narration and then, . when Baranska concerns not less relevant in the domestic literature 1960 - 1970, . than 'female', . Topics 'materialism', . suppression and oppression of the individual 'subject' acquisitiveness of the world (the story "Negative Giselle, . 1977),
. Among other works Baranskii - novel "The Color of dark honey" (1977), . dedicated N.N.Pushkinoy-Lanskoy, . novel "Remembrance Day" (1989), . in a stylized documentary-style story of a female soldatok Second World War, . memoirs documentary book "Wandering homeless,
. Biography. Family Archive. Old albums. Letters of different years. Documents. Memories of my parents, their friends. My own memories "(1999)

. Baranskaya not only one of the representatives of the waves 'urban' prose, . but perhaps the most conspicuous zachinatelnitsa 'feminine' themes in contemporary Russian literature, . continuer which in 1980-1990-s steel Petrushevskaya L., . M. Arbatov, . A. Novikov et al,