The Soviet writer Vil Lipatov was immediately associated with the well-known and popular heroes he created - Aniskin and Stoletov. Interestingly, the images of all the negative heroes of his works are copied from real people. According to the most striking works, wonderful Soviet films were created. For the film "And this is all about him," Lipatov was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1977). The writer also received the first prize of the All-Union Competition named after Nikolai Ostrovsky (1974). In addition, the writer's arsenal includes the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for his contribution to the development of Soviet literature.
Lipatov Vil Vladimirovich
He was born in Chita on April 10, 1927 in an intelligent and educated family. His father worked in the local newspaper Zabaykalsky Rabochiy, his mother was a teacher of Russian language and literature in an ordinary school.
In 1942, after school, Vil Lipatov saw himself as an officer, so he entered the Institute of Military Engineering in Novosibirsk, but then he sharply changed plans. It was then that he showed a talent for writing, and he transferred to the Pedagogical Institute of Tomsk to the historical department.
Being a junior student, Vil Lipatov begins to work in the local newspaper “Red Banner”, where his very first stories “Two in vests”, “Aircraft Fireman” (1956), etc. were published.
Proceedings
In 1958, he was again in his native Chita, where he began to work as the literary secretary of the newspaper publishing house “At the military post”. And from 1964 to 1966 he was already a special correspondent for the newspaper "Soviet Russia". But then fate threw him to Bryansk (in 1965). In 1967, he ended up in Moscow itself, where he worked for the newspapers Izvestia, Literaturnaya Gazeta, and Pravda.
In recent years, he was secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Lipatov was married to Maria Kozhevnikova, the daughter of the famous writer V. Kozhevnikov.
The famous writer died on May 1, 1979 and was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow.
Ville Lipatov: books
The first book - Lipatov’s novel “Six” - was published in 1958. It was written in the spirit of Soviet "production" prose. Its plot describes how brave drivers during a strong snowstorm were able to conduct the necessary equipment through the taiga.
In overcoming difficulties, a person grows stronger, grows up and grows as a person, especially when this happens in a work collective. The theme of labor exploit and the relationship of the individual with other people determines the plots of the following stories by Vily Lipatov: “Your burden cannot be pulled”, “Captain of the Brave” (1959), “Deaf Mint” (1960), “Tooth of Wisdom” and “ Rod ”(1961),“ Death of Yegor Suzun ”and“ Black Yar ”(1963),“ Earth not on whales ”(1966).
Literary fame
In 1964, Vil Lipatov wrote the novel “Alien”, which provoked a heated discussion among critics, as it dealt with the psychology of the modern tradesman. However, the all-Union fame for him, as a writer, was brought by a cycle of stories about the authorized officer Aniskin (1967-1968).
The works “Lida Varksina” (1968), “The Legend of the Director Pronchatov” (1969) and others very clearly presented the style and direction of the author's prose - an essay-documentary. Social conflicts, images of heroes and, most importantly, trust in a person who is always able to correct and establish relations with colleagues in the process of collective work and applying the right approach to any problem - this is the main theme of the author’s works.
Social criticism
Gradually, its relevance, simplicity, and clarity to the factual nature of the narratives led to increased social criticism.
In the late 60s, Vil Lipatov was one of the first writers who specifically hinted at the ill-being of society through the examples of his heroes - honest Aniskin and manager-engineer Pronchatov, who had to twist and break social rules in order to benefit people. This approach immediately provoked polemical attacks on the village investigator and a kind of enterprising Siberian Ostap Bender.
Novels
Then Lipatov takes up the writing of the novels “And this is all about him” (1974) and “Igor Savvovich” (1977). They describe the shadow economy and bureaucracy, and therefore the fatality of the positive hero of the young Komsomol member Yevgeny Stoletov and the inevitability of the defeat of Igor Savvovich.
But in the works "Before the war" (1971), "The Life of Vanyushka Murzin" eternal human values are affirmed - honesty, work, true love, a friendly family.
In the work “Gray Mouse” (1970), the author with great sadness and even pain observes the fate of the weak-character Semyon Balandin, who destroys his “I” with vodka. This hero resembles the truth-seekers of Shukshin. He cannot find application for himself, for his inventions and projects, and therefore he is drunk.