Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897 - 1986) - Soviet writer, known for his work in journalism, prose, poetry, drama. He has the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Childhood
The future writer was born on January 28 in Odessa. His family was intelligent and very educated. Father came from a family of a priest, received excellent education and later taught at several local schools. Mother came from an ancient Cossack family, was the daughter of a high-ranking general.
Six years later, Valentine had younger brother ik. But soon a misfortune happened: the mother fell ill with pneumonia and died. Fortunately, her sister took care of the children, who loved them very much and in many ways managed to replace the lost native person.
The cult of the book has always reigned in the house of the Kataevs. One of the family's favorite pastimes was reading aloud every evening. The presence of a huge library in the house opened the way for the growing boys to many worlds, enclosed on the pages of tens and hundreds of volumes.
Valentin wrote his first poems at the age of ten. According to his own recollections, he was constantly in creative excitement, trying to throw out on paper the thoughts and feelings that crowded in his head. With the conviction of his own uniqueness characteristic of childhood, little Kataev did not doubt for a second that his creations were worthy of being read by the general public. Therefore, with almost every poem, he went on a campaign through all the editions available in the city. The child's creations were accepted but not printed.
One day, one of the editors, seeing that the boy had a talent that needed polishing, advised him to send poems not to a newspaper, but to some writer who could give him advice and send him to the right way. So Kataev met Alexander Fedorov, who took him under his wing. It was he who first discovered the work of Bunin to the boy, from which he came to genuine delight.
Very soon, Valentine met his idol in person. Bunin appreciated the talent of his admirer and agreed to teach him. It was he who instilled in him a wonderful habit to engage in creativity every day, even if there is absolutely no desire to do so.
World War I
First World War burst into the life of young Kataev as a real destructive hurricane. At the time he was sent to the front, he was still in high school and was passionately in love with his neighbor Irina Aleksina. It was with her that he corresponded during the years of battles and received the moral support that his young soul, which had fallen into real hell, so needed.
All the years spent in the trenches and transitions, Kataev did not stop writing. Creativity was that important thread that connected him with the normal world, in which there were no mass deaths and exploding shells. The writer was wounded twice and received many awards, one of which was the title of nobility.
But the most important result of the war for Kataev was his works, written as in hard years, and subsequent ones, on which the imprint of bloody events was clearly felt.
After the revolution
Odessa after the revolution resembled a disturbed beehive, which not only could not fix internal order, but also constantly changed hands. People simply did not understand what kind of world they were in, who was their friend today, who was their enemy, and who would come to replace them tomorrow.
Kataev was a member literary association"Green lamp", but in those years he rarely managed to enjoy own creativity and communication with talented colleagues. Instead, he took part in the ongoing hostilities.
In 1920, Kataev was sent to the hospital with typhus, and then returned home to Odessa. At that time, Soviet power already dominated the city. From her point of view, the young man looked very unreliable, so he was taken into custody. Fortunately, he was not shot immediately, as happened all the time. And then chance helped. One of the Chekists recognized him as a talented poet. So Kataev was at large and is now part of the Red Army. After some time, he was recalled back to the city and sent to work in one of the local newspapers.
Soon Kataev ended up in Kharkov, and then went to Moscow, since it was there that he saw many opportunities for his creative development.
Moscow
In the capital, Kataev devoted himself entirely to literature. He wrote several plays that were performed on the stage and were a success with the audience.
Enough already in 1931 famous writer married a girl who was 16 years younger than him. Her name was Esther Brenner. The eighteen-year-old beauty conquered him not only with her appearance, but also with her education, the ability to feel subtly and, of course, with the admiration that was read in her eyes when she looked at her husband.
The Great Patriotic War
Years of World War II Kataev again spent on the battlefield. This time he was a war correspondent.
It was under the influence of these events and acquaintances that the story "Son of the Regiment" was written, for which the writer received the "Stalin Prize".
peaceful life
In the postwar years, Kataev continued to collaborate with many publications. In particular, his real brainchild was famous magazine"Youth", the editor-in-chief of which he was for 20 years.
In 1978, Kataev wrote the book My Diamond Crown. These were peculiar memories, most of the participants of which appeared under fictitious nicknames. This allowed the writer to bring out many images without being subjected to repression, which Kataev managed to happily avoid all his life, despite the fact that he seemed to do everything to disappear in the Siberian camps. The writer who was not afraid of anything, hacking at the truth and spouting malicious jokes right and left, for some reason did not irritate the Soviet authorities, who usually do not tolerate such behavior.
It can be assumed that this became possible thanks to the great merits of the writer, who created many stories, novels, poems, plays and scripts for films.
Kataev died on April 12, 1986. The famous writer found his last shelter at the Novodevichy cemetery.
One of the most prominent representatives of the southwestern school was born in Odessa on January 28, 1897 in a house on Bazarnaya Street, 4. His father, Pyotr Vasilyevich Kataev, was the son of a priest from Vyatka, his mother, Evgenia Ivanovna, was the daughter of Colonel Bachei (according to the family version, the Bachei were relatives of N.V. Gogol). In 1902, the second son Evgeny (the future Evgeny Petrov) was born in the Kataev family. In 1903, the mother died, and the children helped to raise her younger sister, Elizabeth Bachey. The family repeatedly changed apartments, they lived on the street. Rope, 85; Pirogovskaya, 3; Cozy, 7 (according to the new numbering - 8); Otradnoy, 10 (the building has not been preserved); Uspenskaya, 2.
Kataev studied at the Fifth Men's Gymnasium, began writing poetry at the age of 9, the first poem was published in 1910. In 1911, the Kataev family traveled abroad - to Italy. A year later, in 1912, the first small book was published - a story about an Easter kiss. In 1915, Kataev entered the army as a volunteer, until the summer of 1917 he served in the 64th artillery brigade, was wounded twice, awarded the order St. Anne IV degree.
At the end of 1917, Valentin Kataev returned to Odessa and became one of the most active participants in literary life. According to the memoirs of modern men, it was he who organized one of the most famous literary circles of that time - the “Green Lamp”. During the change of power in 1919, he had to fight in both the Red (summer) and the Volunteer (autumn) army. As Kataev himself later recalled, he had to sit both in counterintelligence and in the emergency department. In the spring of 1920, Kataev and his younger brother were arrested by the Cheka and released in the summer of the same year (according to the memoirs, they were saved by the writer Andrei Sobol). After his release, Kataev worked at YugROSTA, and then, following V. Narbut, who led YugROSTA, Kataev and Olesha in 1921 moved to Kharkov (in those years, the capital of Ukraine).
From 1922 he lived in Moscow. Kataev worked in the railroad newspaper “Gudok”, his feuilletons were published under numerous pseudonyms (one of them “Old Man Sabbakin” became a playful nickname). In the room of Kataev in Mylnikov Lane, at first, all Odessans who moved to Moscow found shelter.
E. Bagritsky, V. Kataev, Ya. Belsky. Odessa, 1925
Kataev was published in the newspapers Pravda, Trud, Nakanune, Rabochaya Gazeta, and the Krokodil magazine. Books of his stories are published, the story “The Wasters” (1926), he becomes a playwright - the plays “Squaring the Circle” and “The Wasters” written in 1928 (based on the story) were staged at the Moscow Art Theater and abroad. In 1932 he was at the construction of Magnitogorsk, described in the story "Time, forward!". The story “The lonely sail turns white” (the first part of the epic-tetralogy “Waves of the Black Sea”) was written in 1936. This is the first of the books of the autobiographical “Odessa cycle”. Her heroes are the Kataev family, in the book he uses his mother's surname - Bachey. As the author himself later wrote, he wanted to “ cross Pinkerton with Bunin” - an entertaining plot with a polished literary language. Kataev was one of the most successful writers of the Odessa school in the 1930s. One of his most famous works in those years was the story about the Civil War in Ukraine “I, the son of the working people ...”, written in 1937. S. Prokofiev’s opera “Semyon Kotko” was written based on it.
During Patriotic War Kataev worked in the Radio Committee and in the Soviet Information Bureau, was a war correspondent for Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda. In 1946 he received the Stalin (State) Prize for the story "The Son of the Regiment". In 1948, he wrote a sequel to “The Lone Sail Whitens” - the story “For the Power of the Soviets” (“Catacombs”) (4th part of the tetralogy “Waves of the Black Sea”) - about the occupation of Odessa and the struggle of the underground. The story was sharply criticized, including for the insufficiently pronounced role of the party in leading the underground. In 1951 Kataev wrote the second version of the story. The second part of the tetralogy “Khutorok in the steppe”, where the real events from the life of the Kataev family (a trip to Italy) came out in 1956, the third - "Winter Wind" - about the Civil War, with a description of the novel with Irene Aleksinskaya - was published in 1961.
In 1955-1961. Kataev was the editor-in-chief of the Youth magazine. Resigned as editor-in-chief own will to do without interruption literary work. It was Kataev's "Youth" that became the launching pad for young poets and prose writers of the sixties.
Starting with the story “Little Iron door in the wall” (1964) V. Kataev uses the style he called “movism” (from the French word “bad”).
At the heart of it following books real events of the biography of the writer and his ancestors are used.
Surreal shifts - time, freedom of association.
Irene Aleksinskaya
This is how “Holy Well” (1965), “Grass of Oblivion” (1967) are written - about meetings with I. Bunin and V. Mayakovsky, “Cube” (1969), “ broken life or the magic horn of Oberon” (1972) – about childhood and Odessa at the beginning of the century, “Cemetery in Skuliany” (1975). In the story “My Diamond Crown” (1978), Odessa and Moscow writers, events of the literary life of Odessa and Moscow in the 1910s–20s are brought out under transparent pseudonyms. One of the most famous works– “Werther has already been written” (1980). For the first time since the 1920s, Soviet literature there are scenes of execution in the Cheka. During the life of Kataev, the story was published only once - in the journal “ New world”, and was not included in the collected works. “The youthful novel of my friend Sasha Pchelkin, told by himself” (1982) again describes (already without politicization) the history of the affair with Irene Aleksinskaya. The latest stories by V. Kataev “Sleeping” (1984) are about Odessa during the Civil War, “Dry Estuary” (1986).
After the colorless prose of the thirties and fifties, Valentin Kataev again, as in the twenties, proved that he was a brilliant stylist, a great Russian writer.
V.P. Kataev - Hero of Socialist Labor (1974), awarded three orders of Lenin, orders, medals. Since 1973 he has been a corresponding member of the Mainz Academy (Germany), since 1976 a member of the Goncourt Academy (Paris).
Only in 2009 was V. Kataev's book published in Moscow.
One of the alleys in Odessa is named after Valentin Kataev.
At the house on st. Bazarnaya, 4, where Valentin Petrovich was born, a memorial plaque was installed.
April 12, 2013 on the facade of Odessa agricultural university(Panteleimonovskaya St., 13) a memorial plaque was opened to the Kataev brothers - Valentin and Evgeny (aka Evgeny Petrov) - it was here that the 5th male gymnasium was located, where writers studied.
The board was installed at the initiative of the 7th grade students of boarding school No. 2.
Alena Yavorskaya,
Deputy Director for Research
Odessa Literary Museum
"The lonely sail turns white", excerpt, read by V.P. Kataev
September 2, 2017, on the occasion of the 223rd anniversary of the founding of Odessa, appeared on the Avenue of Stars new star- in honor of Valentin Petrovich Kataev.
Diocesan School, mother - the daughter of a general, came from a noble family.
The first work of Valentin Kataev - the poem "Autumn" - was published in 1910 in the newspaper "Odessa Bulletin".
In 1915, during the First World War (1914-1918), without graduating from high school, Kataev volunteered for the front. He delivered correspondence and essays on the trench life of soldiers - "Letters from there", "Our everyday life", "Ilya Muromets".
At the front he was wounded twice, received gas poisoning. For military merits, Kataev was awarded two St. George's Crosses and the Order of St. Anna IV degree, promoted to second lieutenant and granted the title of personal, non-hereditary nobility.
At the beginning of the Civil War, on the armored train Novorossiya, Kataev fought as part of Denikin's army. After establishing in Odessa Soviet power, for several months was in the prison of the Odessa Cheka for counter-revolutionary activities.
In 1919 he was mobilized into the Red Army and commanded an artillery battery on the Don Front. Impressions of that period of life were reflected in the autobiographical story Notes on the Civil War (1920).
In 1922 Kataev moved to Moscow. Since 1923, he was a regular contributor to the newspapers Gudok, Pravda, Trud, and Rabochaya Gazeta. In the 1920s, young Kataev's social circle included writers Mikhail Bulgakov, Ilya Ilf, Yuri Olesha, poets Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Velimir Khlebnikov, Boris Pasternak.
In the 1920s, Kataev published the novels The Lord of Iron (1924) and Ehrendorf Island (1924).
During this period he published collections satirical stories"Bearded Baby" (1924), "The Funniest" (1927). A sharp satire on vulgarity and philistinism was also noted in the stories "Ignatius Pudelakin" (1927), "Child", "Things" (both - 1929).
His comedies The Wasters (1928, based on the novel of the same name from 1926, a satire on the NEP reality) and Squaring the Circle (1928) were staged on Moscow stages.
In 1932, after two years of work, his avant-garde novel Time Forward! was published, written under the impression of a trip to Magnitogorsk. In 1937, the heroic-revolutionary story "I, the son of the working people ..." was published.
World fame was brought to the writer by the story "The lonely sail turns white", written in 1936. In 1937, a film of the same name was made based on the work. The story became the first part of the "Waves of the Black Sea" tetralogy. Her second part "Farm in the Steppe" was written in 1956, the third part "Winter Wind" in 1960-1961. The fourth part was written in 1948 and was originally called "For the Power of the Soviets", with the same title a film was made on it in 1956; in 1951 it was published in the second edition under the title "Catacombs".
During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) Kataev served as a war correspondent. Huge popularity brought the writer the story "Son of the Regiment" (1945), awarded in 1946 Stalin Prize. Based on the work was written play of the same name and a film was made in 1946.
In 1955-1961, Valentin Kataev served as editor-in-chief of the Yunost magazine.
In the 1960s, Kataev wrote a publicistic story about Vladimir Lenin "The Little Iron Door in the Wall" (1964), lyric-philosophical memoirs "Holy Well" (1967), "Grass of Oblivion" (1967), "Cube" (1969) .
The literary life of Moscow in the 1920s is dedicated to his memoir and art book My Diamond Crown (1978).
In 1980, a story about the repressions of the Odessa Cheka "Werther has already been written" was published.
In 1982, his "Youthful Romance" was published - a collection of letters - the love story of a young soldier for a general's daughter against the backdrop of the First World War.
Based on the works of the writer during his lifetime, the films "The Motherland Calls" (1936), "The Lone Sail Turns White" (1937), "Son of the Regiment" (1946), "Pages of Life" (1948), "Crazy Day" (1956), "For the power of the Soviets" (1956), "Time, forward!" (1965), "Khutorok in the steppe" (1970), etc.
Kataev was a corresponding member of the Academy in Mainz (Germany), a member of the Goncourt Academy.
The writer's work was marked by various awards. In 1946, Kataev was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree. In 1974 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The writer was awarded three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and medals.
April 12, 1986 Valentin Kataev died in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.
From 1934 Kataev was married to Esther Brenner. In 1936 their daughter Evgenia was born, in 1938 their son Pavel was born. Pavel Kataev became a writer, known as the author of the fairy-tale books "The Girl and the Squirrel" and "Flying on a Dragonfly", the novel "Alone in the Ocean".
The writer's younger brother, Yevgeny Petrov (1902-1942), real name Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev, co-wrote the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Golden Calf (1931) with Ilya Ilf.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Kataev Valentin Petrovich was born on January 28 (according to the new style), 1897 in Odessa in the family of a teacher. The first poem "Autumn" Kataev published as a high school student in 1910 in the newspaper "Odessa Bulletin". He also published in Southern Thought, Odessa Leaflet, Awakening, Lukomorye, and others. In 1915, without graduating from high school, he volunteered for the front, was wounded twice, and gassed. He delivered correspondence and essays about the "trench" life of soldiers, full of sympathy for the common man in the war.
In 1919 Kataev was mobilized into the Red Army and commanded an artillery battery on the Don Front. Returning to Odessa, he worked at YugROSTA, attended various literary circles and associations. He became close with Yu.K. Olesha, E.G. Bagritsky, with whom he composed campaign texts for posters.
From 1922 he lived in Moscow, was a regular contributor to the Gudok newspaper (since 1923), published humoresques and feuilletons in Pravda, Rabochaya Gazeta, Truda (pseudonyms: Starik Sabbakin, Ol. Twist, Mitrofan Mustard). IN early work Kataev, a peculiar fusion of realism, sharp worldly observation, irony, reaching sarcasm, romantic elation and daring fantasy manifested itself in stories about the Civil War (“The Krantz Experience”, 1919; “Golden Pen”, 1920; “Notes on the Civil War”, 1924, where there is a tendentious-contrasting "black-and-white" image of what is happening, with an exalted description of the "red" heroes and a satirical portrayal of the White Guards). During this period, adventure-utopian novels about world revolution were written (Ehrendorf Island, The Lord of Iron, both 1924).
Kataev was fascinated by experiments in the field of form, strange characters appeared in his prose - the mysterious Oxford student Sir Henry, the devil in a dark jacket and white cuffs, and other figures that make one recall E. T. A. Hoffmann and E. Poe ("Sir Henry and the devil", 1920; "Iron Ring", 1923).
At the same time, Kataev went from a mocking play on anecdotal incidents (collections of stories The Bearded Baby, 1924; The Funniest, 1927) to the accusatory pathos of debunking the cult of profit and the "beautiful" life. The first significant success was brought to the writer by the story "Squanderers" (1926). This is a phantasmagorical story of accountant Prokhorov and cashier Vanechka, who, littering with government money, travel around Russia in search of beautiful life. The action takes place during the New Economic Policy period, and the characters are presented with a bleak picture of the wretched Soviet life and impudent NEPism. The story was translated abroad and became a bestseller in the United States.
The sharpness of social and psychological satire directed against philistine vulgarity and the petty-bourgeois cult of property marked the comedy Squaring the Circle (1928). After a trip to Magnitogorsk, Kataev wrote a chronicle novel "Time, forward!" (1932), the name of which was suggested to him by V. Mayakovsky. The book is imbued with Mayakovsky's belief that the beginning of the first five-year plan can be perceived as the dawn new era. The main characters of the novel - engineer Margulies, Zagirov, foreman of concrete workers Sayenko - see the meaning of their lives in work that is ahead of time and transforms life.
In the story "The Lonely Sail Is Whitening" (1936), the main characters of which were Odessa boys who find themselves in a whirlpool revolutionary events 1905. Fascinating plot, picturesque objectivity of the description of the "background" of what is happening - the bustle of Odessa streets, the market, the port, the beach, the unceasing sea, gymnasium life, etc., the fusion of humor, lyricism and heroic pathos made this work one of the favorite children's books.
The desire to show the history of the country through the fate of a person is also marked by the story of Kataev "I, the son of the working people" (1937), which takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919, the main characters are folklore characters- the brave soldier Semyon Kotko and the beautiful girl Sophia, the narrative, unfolding in the style of folk tales, is full of descriptions of Ukrainian landscapes, rituals and customs, the sounds of Ukrainian speech.
Kataev about the Great Patriotic War
During the Great Patriotic War, war correspondent Kataev wrote feuilletons, essays, stories. Huge popularity was brought to the writer by the story "The Son of the Regiment" (1945; State Prize, 1946), a story about the fate of an orphan boy adopted by a military regiment. The institution of "sons of the regiment" has since established itself in the Russian army; based on the story, a play of the same name was written, a film was made (1946, dir. V. M. Pronin). An accurate sense of modernity, authenticity of details, a witty plot, a fusion of lyricism and grotesque, like his other dramatic works, the play "Day of rest" (1947) was different.
Kataev and the magazine "Youth"
In 1957-1962, being the editor-in-chief of the Yunost magazine, Kataev contributed to its transformation into one of the leading periodicals countries, "mouthpiece" of the so-called. of the sixties, who opened the way to the reader for many prominent writers (including V.P. Aksenov and A.T. Gladilin). In 1964, the writer published an artistic and journalistic story about V.I. Lenin "A small iron door in the wall." In the cycle of Kataev's memoirs (the stories "The Holy Well", 1965; "The Grass of Oblivion", 1967; "The Broken Life, or the Magic Horn of Oberon", 1972; "My Diamond Crown", 1975; "Dry Estuary", 1986, where, inspired by the poetic fantasy of the author, the characters and plots of many of Kataev’s books came together), new facets of the writer’s talent were revealed: the depth of penetration into the meaning of events and the characters of people, confession and observation, combined with a living ability to artistic displacement of time and space.
In the story “Werther has already been written” (1979), Kataev shows civil war in Russia as a senseless fratricidal massacre, in which the hero of the story, the sincere and pure Junker Dima, is involved, and in which the commissars in black leather jackets carry out their bloody court, shooting their victims without trial or investigation in garages.
In Youthful Novel (1982), Kataev told a story similar to old romance: about the love of a young soldier Pchelkin for a general's daughter. It's a novel in letters building material which became archival finds.
The last years of Kataev's life
Kataev's last book, Dry Estuary (1986), was hardly noticed by critics. This is a kind of epilogue to his multi-volume novel: in last time heroes came together, plots of many books united. Life is passed through the prism of distant memories, combined with poetic fantasy.
Kataev Valentin Petrovich (1897 - 1986), prose writer. Born on January 16 (29 N. S.) in Odessa in the family of a teacher. He studied at the Odessa gymnasium. From the age of nine he began to write poetry, some of which were published in Odessa newspapers, and in 1914 for the first time Kataev's poems were published in St. Petersburg in the journal Vse Mir. With the outbreak of World War I, he entered the volunteer army in the artillery brigade, where he stayed until the summer of 1917. He met the October Revolution in the Odessa infirmary, where he was treated after being wounded on the Romanian front. After demobilization, he made his first attempts to write prose. In 1919 he was drafted into the Red Army, served as a battery commander, then was recalled from the army and appointed head of the satire windows in the Odessa ROSTA: he wrote texts for propaganda posters, ditties, slogans, leaflets. In 1921 he was sent to establish similar work in Kharkov. In 1922 he moved to Moscow, published his feuilletons in the newspapers Gudok, Trud, Rabochaya Gazeta, without leaving work on fiction. In 1925 he published the story "Squanderers", noticed by both critics and readers. This story was staged, the performance was a success since 1928 on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. Inspired by recognition, Kataev writes the comedy "Squaring the Circle", which also had a resounding success. Since then he has been constantly writing for the theatre. In 1932, having made a trip to the construction of Magnitogorsk, Kataev wrote the novel-chronicle “Time, forward!”, which became milestone in his work. In 1936 he publishes the novel A Lonely Sail Turns White; He works a lot for Pravda: he writes feuilletons, essays, notes, and articles. In 1937, the story "I am the son of the working people" was published. During the Patriotic War, he worked in the Radio Committee and in the Soviet Information Bureau abroad. He was a war correspondent for Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda, where his essays from the front were published. During this period, the stories “Third Tank”, “Flag”, the novels “Wife”, “Son of the Regiment”, the plays “ Father's house", "Blue scarf". In 1949, the novel For the Power of the Soviets was published. In 1955, the journal Yunost was created, with V. Kataev as editor-in-chief. Here, in 1956, the novel "A Farm in the Steppe" was published. In the 1960s, “Grass of Oblivion”, “Holy Well”, “Cube” were written. In 1978 - "My Diamond Crown", in 1980 - "Werther has already been written." V. Kataev died in 1986 in Moscow.
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Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897 -1986) - famous Soviet poet and the prose writer was born on January 16 (29 N. S.) in Odessa. His father was a teacher. Kataev studied at the Odessa gymnasium. He began writing poetry at the age of 9. In 1914, the St. Petersburg magazine Ves Mir published the poems of the young poet. During the First World War, Kataev volunteered for the active army. When it broke out October Revolution, he healed wounds in the Odessa infirmary. After demobilization, he writes prose. After he was drafted into the Red Army in 1919, he acted as a battery commander. After that, he was recalled from the army and appointed head of the satire windows in ROSTA Odessa. First he moves to Kharkov, and then to Moscow, where he publishes his humorous works in the newspapers "Gudok", "Trud", "Working newspaper", in parallel writes fiction.
Critics and readers noticed the story "Squanderers" (1925), followed by a dramatization for the Moscow Art Theater. The performance was quite successful. Then there was the successful comedy “Squaring the Circle”. Since then, Kataev has been writing regularly for the theatre.
In 1932, under the impression of the construction of Magnitogorsk, the writer created the novel-chronicle “Time, forward!”. In 1936, the publication of the novel “The Lone Sail Turns White” took place. For the newspaper Pravda, Kataev writes humorous stories and articles. In 1937, the story “I am the son of the working people” saw the light of day. During the Second World War, he worked as a war correspondent for Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda. The story “The Son of the Regiment” and the plays “Father’s House” and “The Blue Handkerchief” belong to this period.
IN postwar period Kataev wrote the novel “For the Power of the Soviets” (1949) and created the journal “Youth”, in which all the works written by the writer in the post-war period are published.
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