Vladimir Krupin is a representative of the so-called village prose. He is known, first of all, thanks to the collection of short stories “Grains” and such works as “Living Water”, “Sorry, goodbye ...”, “Love me as I love you”.
In his career there were different periods. Among them is the time of complete oblivion. Today, books by a Russian writer are published regularly. In addition, it was Vladimir Krupin who became the first laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize. The biography and work of the Russian prose writer is the topic of the article.
Childhood
The future writer was born in a small village of the Kirov region two months after the start of World War II. Vladimir Krupin reflected childhood memories in the collection “Vyatka Notebook”. In the stories that are included in this book, the writer tells not only about wartime, but also about the fate of completely different people.
Vladimir Krupin is a Russian prose writer for whom the theme of love for a small homeland has become almost the main thing in his work. The childhood of the writer, like the early years of many of his peers, was not easy. After graduation, he worked as a loader, milling machine operator, locksmith. For some time he worked in a local rural newspaper as a correspondent. Vladimir Krupin knew firsthand about hard peasant labor. He, like many children of the war, who lived in the villages, spent most of the summer holidays in the garden or haymaking.
A family
Vladimir Krupin is called an Orthodox writer. No wonder. After all, the future prose writer was brought up in an atypical Soviet family. Church rites were known to him from childhood. Among the relatives, of course, there were pioneers and Komsomol members. But on Easter in the house of the Krupins invariably prepared a festive table, put on clean white shirts. However, they did not go to church, because it was destroyed. And the grandfather of the future writer was arrested only because he refused to work on the Great Orthodox holiday.
Student years
After a three-year army service, Vladimir Krupin applied to the Literary Institute . Gorky. However, he did not pass the competition and entered the pedagogical institute, the faculty of Russian philology.
By the time he received the diploma, Krupin was married and lived with his wife in a communal apartment. The time was not easy. I had to work hard, write scripts for television. But for creativity, even in those years, Krupin found time. And despite the fact that he could not publish his works for a very long time. Only in 1974 was Vladimir Krupin able to publish his first collection of short stories.
Books
The creative path of the writer began with the publication of poems, essays and reports. But the genre of "village prose" from his youth was extremely attractive. In 1974, the works “Yamshchitskaya novel”, “Barbara” were published. Then the collection "Grains" was published.
The story "Living Water", which Vladimir Krupin wrote three years after his literary debut, brought wide popularity. This work contains fantasy, humor, and sadness. The author tells of a healing source that can cure alcoholism, a very common ailment in Russia.
"Time for a burning match"
This book is a compilation of the writer’s short stories. It also includes works previously published in literary magazines. The works of this collection are easily perceived and accessible even to young readers. The Russian prose writer Vladimir Krupin teaches good and bright. “Books for children and adults” - this is how fans of his work respond to collections of stories by this writer.
Patriot writer
In the nineties, Vladimir Krupin began to publish works of art in which he expressed his state position. Thanks to these works, he gained a reputation as a tendentious fiction writer. The damage of the creative intelligentsia and the agony of the Russian countryside are the main topics of this period. The writer also acted as a publicist.
Krupin with special attention and love refers to Russian folklore. In public and creative life, he expresses contempt for Western values, which is clearly evidenced by the story “Yankees, go home”, and that slips in the work “As soon as it starts.” The latter is a note by a young psychiatrist. The manners in the country at the turn of the century in this story are identified by the author with the orders in the hospital for the mentally ill.
Feature prose Krupina
Mainly in the work of this writer is the House. In his stories, he recreates it, based on the memories of relatives, peasant life, folk wisdom inherent in the villagers. Another feature of Krupin's prose is open finals. Moreover, such endings are distinguished by special lyricism and penetration.
One of the largest works, the Vyatka Notebook, is dedicated to the homeland. According to critics, this collection contains classic examples of village prose.
Krupin's favorite heroes are holy fools, village men. These characters tell the truth, understand the true essence of events, although they express their thoughts in a rather tongue-tied way. But it is precisely these truth-seekers who resist the lies that have long been rooted in Russian society and provoke, in the author’s opinion, such phenomena as social apathy, indifference, and drunkenness. The writer is extremely careful about the language. This is expressed not only in the rich literary style characteristic of his works. It is known that the Russian prose writer has repeatedly opposed the use of borrowings from foreign languages ​​in his native language.
Later, Krupin’s work is devoted to the topic of Orthodoxy (Velikoretskaya Kupel, Last Times, Religious Procession). Since the mid-nineties, the writer has been teaching at the Theological Academy, and is also the chief editor of one of the Christian magazines.