Summary. "Forever - nineteen" - the story of Grigory Baklanov

In Soviet times, decades afterthe end of the Great Patriotic War, a number of works of art were created in which the abstract image of the victorious nation and the fate of individual people who passed the war were put on the first place. Authors of such literature in their work were guided by the principle of truthfulness and reliability. The topic of this article is one of similar works and its brief content. "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-Western 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, all that he witnessed during the war years. In 1979 he wrote the work of Baklanov ("Forever - Nineteen Years"). The summary of this book is set out below.

Tretyakov

This is the name of the protagonist of the story. What topic did the work of Grigory Baklanov ("Forever - nineteen")? The summary will answer this question. Already thanks to a small biographical note it becomes clear that this writer spoke in his works about the war, its destructive power. But different authors wrote about this tragedy in different ways. And if to state a brief content, "Forever - nineteen" - this is a small story about a man whose dreams and plans were destroyed by a ruthless war. Tretyakov forever remained young, like the twenty-five million Russian people who died during the most terrible war of the twentieth century.

Summary

Forever nineteen-year-olds are people who do notlived to their twentieth birthday. One of them was Tretyakov. But not with the description of his hero began the story of Grigory Baklanov ("Forever - nineteen"). The summary of the work, written more than thirty years after the end of the war, is worth beginning with the first chapter. It deals with a terrible find of the workers of the crew. On the spot where once bloody battles were 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 tell? "Forever - nineteen" - this is the story of the last days of a young lieutenant. Tretyakov graduated from the school and went to the front. And on the way he meets military and civilians. Everywhere there is hunger and deprivation. But even this unsightly picture can seem beautiful in comparison with what Tretyakov has yet to see. The closer the front, the more tangible are the traces of the terrible slaughter.

When the war began, Tretyakov was seventeen years old. Its growing occurred at the front. And here, from time to time, he recalled peacetime, his uneasy relations with his mother.

The most terrible military theme is the doomyoung people. And it was she who was dedicated to the work of Baklanov "Forever - Nineteen Years". A summary of the chapters, perhaps, will give a detailed description of the hero. But it is worthwhile to say that in this story in the foreground there is still a reflection of the young lieutenant, his emotional experiences. To understand the tragedy of a person whose conscious life passed at the front, one can only read Grigory Baklanov's work in full.

Memories of the house

The conditions in which the lieutenant isto his personality a significant influence. He grows up and understands that it was impossible to comprehend a teenager living in peaceful peaceful times. In the war, Tretyakov realizes his stupidity and stiffness towards his mother. After the arrest of her husband, she remarried. The son saw in this act a betrayal of an innocently condemned father. And only in the war, having seen many deaths and a real human grief, Tretyakov realized that he had no right to condemn his mother.

First love

It is very succinct to formulate a briefcontent. "Forever - nineteen" is a tragic story of a young lieutenant, whose life was interrupted, before it began. What could be more terrible than the death of a man who did not even have time to fall in love? During his stay in the hospital in the heart of Tretyakov a pure tender feeling towards Sasha is born. However, young people have no future. Their feelings will always remain a small emotional upsurge. It will never develop into a strong trusting relationship that can bind people for many years to come.

He perishes, but until the last minutes of his life, neitherhe never gives up 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 poet Drunin, were "not born from childhood - from war".