Surprisingly and at the same time, it is very pleasant that with the development of information technologies, the interest of the reading public in the cultural heritage of past years does not dry out. For example, the younger generation often becomes interested in reading the work written by Janka Bryl - “Galya” (a summary of the story will be presented in this material). This is natural, since Yanka Bryl's pen contains many examples of fiction.
The childhood and youth of the writer of the BSSR, Ivan Antonovich Bryl, took place in Western Belarus. Most of his narratives, which describe the life of the common people, are connected with this region. One of the author’s iconic literary creations is a story published in 1953.
A touching story about a difficult female fate (Yanka Bryl, "Galya")
A brief summary of the first part of the story comes down to a description of the events unfolding in the post-war Belarusian village, which until 1939 was part of Poland. A woman named Galya lives with her teenage son Antos and daughter Sonechka in a remote farm.
The daily life of the family is associated with working in the field and caring for pets. All the hard work lies on the fragile shoulders of a woman and her children. Galina's husband is serving a long prison term for speculation, and his parents died before the war. On short summer nights, a woman recalls her youth gone, years of life with a hated man - the father of her children.
Great love and ruined youth
In continuation of the story (Janka Bryl, “Galya”), the summary contains the main heroine’s memories of past youth. Galya did not know her father, her mother, the laborer Marylya, raised her daughter alone. Although they called the girl in the village a baystryuchka (illegitimate, fatherless), this nickname did not stick to her. Okay and working Galya grew up, many guys in the village looked at her beauty. But the girl’s heart belonged only to one - the cheerful harmonist Sergey. Just a week their happiness lasted, and then the guy suddenly disappeared.
It was then that the son of a wealthy farmer, Mikola, turned to the orphan. Galya did not want to answer his courtship, but where to go? It was a great honor for a girl from the poorest family in the village to marry a rich man. Moreover, Galya learned that her beloved Seryozha had been arrested for connection with the communist underground, and it is not known whether he will be able to escape from the gendarme prison.
Janka Bryl, "Galya": a summary of the final part
After the wedding, a young woman appeared on the farm, where her gray routine flowed, filled with hard work and bullying by her husband and his parents. Years passed, the Second World War ended, and the territory where the village was located became part of Soviet Belarus. On collective farm fields, the noise of agricultural machinery is heard day and night.
Galya knows that Sergey is working on one of the tractors. Galina's children have grown up, but in her heart the love for this man still does not fade. Will they ever meet? Can Galya be happy? Janka Bryl, the summary of the story of which you just read, as if deliberately leaves the story unfinished, inviting the reader to independently think up the further development of the plot.