Author brief introduction Vasili Ivanovich Belov (1932-), a Russian writer in the Soviet Union. Sue party member. 1964 graduated from Gorky College of Literature and worked in collective farms and Ural factories. From 65438 to 0956, he began to publish works, first writing poems, and then quickly turned to novels, mainly reflecting the life and mentality of farmers. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Hot Summer (1963) and A Bend in the River (1964). The novella Trivia was published in 1966, which marked the generation of genius as a writer and the depth of his observation of real life. In this novel, belov describes in detail the basic necessities of life, birth and death of an ordinary peasant family, thus showing the hardships and pains of human life and the essence of life. Hosking, a British scholar, called this novella "a philosophical novel written by a great scholar" in his dialogue with the reporter of Russian Literature. The novella The Carpenter's Story (1968) not only created a vivid image of an old carpenter full of personality characteristics, but also revealed many crux problems in modern countryside through his complicated relationship with people around him. By 1970s, belov's creation was more extensive in theme and genre. He has created a collection of plays on clear water (1973), a collection of short stories describing rural life, a kiss of rosy clouds (1975), a collection of short stories, a buzzing electric wire (1978) and the night before. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, belov published Harmony, a close-up collection reflecting people's life in the north, to explore Russian traditional rural culture. 1986 The publication of the novel "Everything is in the Front" caused a heated debate. Belov's creation has attracted the attention and praise of critics at home and abroad, and he is known as the "northern cultural tradition" school in local prose.
Summary: The Trivia of Man consists of 7 chapters, 2 1, and each chapter has a title. This novel describes the daily life of an ordinary farmer very simply and delicately. The original meaning of the title is "ordinary things", which is the favorite sentence of the protagonist Ivan Avril Kanovic on weekdays and the main content of the work. Ivan is a coachman on a remote farm in northern Soviet Union. He was injured in one leg in the war and was a little lame. After the war, she returned to her hometown and fell in love with hard-working and kind Katrina, but her mother refused. Later, he married a girl he didn't love and broke up soon. After so many ups and downs, Ivan and Katrina finally got married. The crystallization of their "fiery love" (chapter 10, section 4) is a family with many children. At the beginning of the story, the ninth child was born. He is Ivan, the youngest son who just turned six weeks old. They are: one and a half-year-old brother Valachi Ka, four-year-old Ma Xialu, a little sister who often cries, her six-year-old twin brothers Mishka and Vasika, three-year-old Gliska and four-year-old Katyushka. The eldest daughter makes a living outside, and the eldest son is in boarding school. Mother Katerina worked hard in the cattle farm, providing food, clothes and books for seven children around her. Grandma is heartbroken for her daughter. Although she said that she would go to her son's house every day, she could not bear to part with a lot of young children and grandchildren. She has been helping her daughter for more than four years. She often tells people about her daughter: "She gets up at 3 o'clock and comes back at 1 1 in the evening. It happens every day. For many years, I have never had a Sunday rest or vacation. And those kids! Always having children, one a year, isn't it harmful to your health? ! She's fine. As soon as the child landed, she was in a hurry to go to work and never took a day off. " Catalina suffered from heart disease due to overwork and has fainted several times. The doctor warned her not to have any more children, but she just thought it was okay. After giving birth to the ninth child, she still didn't rest, and because of the increase of family expenses, she had to take care of 12 cows and a column of calves that others didn't like to make, so she fell ill again and fainted on the haystack. Ivan, the parents of this big family, is also a diligent plowman. In addition to catching the carriage for delivery, he also worked hard for his family in the morning and evening. He got into the habit of getting up early, always chopping wood before his wife got up, and then went fishing by the lake to supplement his family with the money from selling fish. Ivan keeps a cow at home, and all the children grow up on its milk. Cutting grass for cattle, especially hay for winter, is a major event for farmers' families. At that time, the collective farm stipulated that farmers were not allowed to mow the grass privately, so Ivan had to secretly mow the grass in the distant Woods at night. Unfortunately, it was discovered. Actually, many farmers are the same. So they obeyed and sent the hay to the farm for confiscation. Ivan's brother-in-law, Mika, works in other places and makes more money. He came to visit his mother and sister and learned that they didn't even have hay, but Ivan earned 18 rubles by driving a carriage on the farm for a month. Coupled with hunting, fishing and carpentry, he can't even build a stove to support his family. Mikika suggested Ivan to go to the city with him for a short-term job. Ivan has never left his wife and hometown. He is afraid of the city and money. But thinking about the problem of food and clothing for a large group of children, after several days of ideological struggle, I finally agreed to go out to make a living. Who knows that the night after Ivan and Mickey moved, the production captain, considering the general dissatisfaction of farmers, announced that the next Sunday "it is allowed to cut their own cattle." Give only one day instead of a holiday. As soon as the news reached every household, the women quickly lit the stove and ran to the grass in the Woods with the lights on that night. "Katrina off Ivan and his brother early in the morning, the in the mind very uncomfortable. In the evening, he mowed the grass all night with his two oldest children-one is 10 and the other is 1 1 0. While mowing the grass, she taught her daughter that her son would not fall from the tree. At noon, Katrina felt sick and dizzy, but she tried to cut off a piece of grass and make up a small pile. As a result, I collapsed. Catalina, dying, lay at home for a long time and died in the middle of the night. Her mother is by her side. Her husbands Ivan and Mika got on the train after going out and got separated. Mika has the ticket. Ivan was fined and got off at a small station. Fortunately, Mikika also arrived, so Ivan insisted on going home. Three days later, when Ivan rushed into the house, it was the time when the villagers held a funeral for Katrina. Ivan threw himself on his wife's coffin and fainted. After his wife was buried, Ivan didn't drink a drop of wine. He sat in tears all day and even wanted to commit suicide. Under the discouragement of her mother-in-law, Ivan regained the courage to survive for her children. He killed cows, sold beef and sent several children to kindergarten. At this time, the aunt who lives in the next village came. She had a long talk with Katrina's mother. She decided to let her daughter Niu Shika, who was unmarried at the age of 40 due to eye defects, take the place of Katrina. The story soon spread all over the village, and only Ivan himself didn't know it. Katrina died 40 days ago. While preparing for Lent for her, Neushka and her daughter came to Ivan's house. Niushika began to take care of the children and help with housework, while Ivan came to the grave with his wife's favorite big red flower, where he poured out his feelings to his wife, heartbroken. Katrina has fallen asleep, and Ivan has to live hard. According to the laws of nature, everything is "endless".
The novella Ordinary Trivia describes the culture and life of the disappearing Soviet farmers in great detail through the trivial daily life of ordinary farmers' families. While describing the rural reform in the Soviet Union, it puts forward the universality of human nature. Belov's observation of the countryside is more insightful than that of ordinary writers who describe farmers' chronicles. He took his hometown, the rural area of vologda in northern Russia, as the background, and involved many farmers' problems. Vologda is a remote and desolate border area in the northern part of the Soviet Union, but it is in a very important position in the cultural life of the Soviet Union. The melancholy in belov's works stems from his belief that collectivization, war and urbanization split the original Russian rural center. However, human intervention, arbitrary policies and hard-working farmers have no livelihood, which forced Ivan to leave the land, the foundation of his life, and made Katrina, as the pillar of the countryside and family, die tragically early.
The novel is all about trivial matters, but it is full of poetry and painting. The psychological description of the characters is meticulous, vivid and distinctive. The scenery is full of human feelings, rich in language, changeable in narrative angle and unique in structure. Particularly striking is the sixth chapter "Life in Rogulja". The author personifies animals and acts as the counterpart of the heroine. Rogulja is the only cow in Katrina's family. This is the lifeline of children. It is loved like family. Taking care of cows is the main responsibility of housewives. For Rogulja, the hostess is also her closest person. The author spared no expense to describe the maternity of Luogulia. When she was pregnant for the first time, "now, she is very cautious in every move." Deep in Rogulja's dull eyes, there is an invisible and detached sense of self-esteem. It lives completely in the world formed by its own mind, and even the fierce whipping of the shepherd has never made it out of its detached state. " As Rogulja approaches childbirth, it feels more strongly that the important event for which it was born is approaching. The restlessness of the abdomen makes it more and more uneasy. It forbids anyone to get close to it, even the hostess is afraid and distrustful of it. Finally, the critical moment has arrived. "That night, at dawn, the hostess fell asleep. After a brief pain, Rogulja began to lick his calf. Its body seems to have split in two, and since then it seems that there are two Rogulja: itself and this little creature still emitting hot air. But in the morning, the calf was taken away. Rogulja bleated in fear and sadness, as if crying with his whole hollowed-out body, but people took the calf away, or half of it, and the whole shed and rogulj were full of tragedy and despair. However, this despair is like a child's umbilical cord, which soon disappears and becomes a double indifference to oneself. " Rogulja's profound maternal instinct deepens readers' understanding of the heroine Katrina. This hardworking and simple rural woman regards childbirth as her sacred duty. Like ancient times, she has to obey the laws of nature, giving birth to one child almost every year and raising nine children in a row. In order to feed them and keep them warm, she worked day and night, did not rest after giving birth, and fainted in the ground several times because of overwork. Even after her heart attack, she still worked and gave birth. Rogulja and Katrina live together, and their fates are closely linked. Catalina's sudden death also brought the result that Rogulja was neglected and trampled upon. Rogulja's aesthetic value is no less than its master's.
The structure of other chapters is also original. For example, the second chapter begins with "children". This group of children aged 6 weeks 1 1 eat, drink, urinate and sleep in various states, crying, laughing, making noise and making noise, which are really alive. Then there is the story told by my grandmother, the morning of Ivan Avril, Kanovic and his wife, Katrina. After the introduction of the whole family, it is Chapter 3 "On the Journal". This chapter shows the activities of the country open-air club centered on logs. People come and go, exchanging information and spreading news. The basic characteristics of the whole village will be clear. In the last chapter, Ivan wrote that in order to cheer up, he went to the forest and cut down a big poplar tree that he had already found, and he lost his way. After two days and two nights in nature, he reviewed his life and thought about the meaning of life. He realized that all sufferings must be overcome, and people can only live and breathe like everything in nature, so it goes on and on forever. In this way, the whole novel ends in lyrical and philosophical thinking.