The laws of the soul in the prose of Nikolai Voronov Cover Image

Законы души в прозах Николая Воронова
The laws of the soul in the prose of Nikolai Voronov

Author(s): Zdeňka Matyušová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů

Summary/Abstract: Nikolay Pavlovich Voronov (1926–2014) counts among excellent and the most outstanding Russian writers. His work ranks with the classical writers of Russian literature such were Fyodor Abramov, Boris Mozhayev, Sergey Zalygin, Vladimir Solouchin, Ivan Akulov, Victor Astafyev, Valentin Rasputin, Evgeniy Nosov, Vasyliy Belov and others. Nikolay Voronov was a novelist, poet, publicist and the author of more than thirty books. All his life is connected with the town of Magnitogorsk in Chelyabin region. His recalls of his childhood there became later the basis for his autobiographic novel Youth in Zeleznodolsk (1972). Apart from others, Voronov also wrote the following proses In Spring Time (1956), Boiler (1982), Peak summer (1976), Flight to India (2001). In all his books, he describes with subtle psychological vertones noticeable and convincing characters of people living in the Urals and depicts the picturesque countryside of the unique Ural region.

  • Issue Year: XI/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 57-63
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian