Incredible biography

An unusual biography is about the author: it was never too late to become a writer to read this book in the wake of interest in memoirs and auto -playing as a genre. Three points were attracted: 1 This is the biography of my contemporary, 2 writers, 3 history about how a person changes his fate already in adulthood. It is decided to leave the profession, which was given a part of life, and not just for the sake of survival - you never know this happened in perestroika, when the engineers went to the market to trade, became shuttles, entrepreneurs - and to allow the dream to come true.

And he makes a double ... No, even a triple somersault: Galina Vrubblevskaya became a psychologist, journalist and writer. And I also wanted to know what the half of the suitcase has to do with it! Intrigue right from the cover. Somehow I came across a collection of stories about women who decided that it was not too late to fulfill their most incredible dreams and after TI-to go around the world with a hitchhiking, jumping a parachute, getting a higher education, making a career in Hollywood.

I read, fascinated - and was disappointed at the same time. There were only two of the Russian names, and both are connected with sports. And that's all? Where are our women ??? What about their dreams ??? Now Gestalt is closed. And we also have. But the path from the dream to the result is definitely not for everyone. In fact, volitional efforts, stamina, talent, many components are needed.

In order not just to try new and stay at an amateur level, but to achieve professionalism. Galina Vrubblevskaya approach was serious, which is indicated by the education of the psychological and literary, and membership in professional and creative unions. However, to build fate and build a story about it is independent tasks. I am already familiar with the artistic prose of the author, so at first I just got the expected pleasure from good literature, transparent language, accurate details, living portraits.

The charm of childhood, primary school with separate training, such a romantic Leningrad X - X, student life, which included work at a shipyard - on the street, in any weather. The birth of your favorite daughters, the everyday life of a programmer in a “mailbox”, a recognizable life of a Soviet young specialist with wall newspapers and a hated vegetable bag - and a sudden turn of the era.

Change of work, impressions of the first trips abroad - everything else, everything is new. On the pages of the book there are many photographs from the personal archive of G. They not only illustrate events, but also convey the spirit of the era. Faces, hairstyles, outfits! With such pleasure you consider everything. With such a level of skill, it was possible to simply build all these pictures in chronology, in themselves attractive and causing a sense of involvement - after all, a passer -by path has gone.

A good book would have already turned out. But when I realized that there would be no direct chronology, that the author did not take advantage of this obvious decision, interest went on increasing. Cool focus: win the reader, and then surprise. The book is composed of microdists, which, nevertheless, do not scatter, but are shuffled so that they complement each other, increase the meanings, give instigations for previous riddles, show the personality of the GG and its fate from different sides, and in general they make up a beautiful composition, from where not a single brick can be pulled out.

Probably, the author’s engineering abilities and the skills of building algorithms were “working” here. Another highlight of the book: this is not descriptive, but analytical memoirism. The story of events is accompanied by their analysis. There are constantly not only Galina-Personship and Galina-Autor, but also Galina-psychologist who is trying to understand and explain what was happening in childhood, in his youth, in the turning points of life, where the writer's talent was hidden and how he still managed to emerge.

In fact, the whole book is a psychological session.

There is a whole chapter about crisis events in which the tests that have fallen to the share of the author are considered as an internal resource. This corresponds to the designated genre "Autobiography-Autofikshn", where autofixes involves the study of traumatic events. In this case, the study is professional. It is very valuable that it was not left for “internal use”, and the author allowed to go with himself this path.

How can I not recall Virginia Wolf and her essay “My own room”! Of course, a writer’s topic was of separate interest for me: the realities of entering the writing environment in the zero years, communication with publishers and colleagues. Especially the episode, when books from a series of female prose seemed to the male leaders not enough solid baggage to join the Writers' Union, and had to prove their creative viability for many years.

Well, I also found out what was the case with the half of the suitcase! More about writing biographies.