Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich - a representative of the so-called anti-Soviet prose. His career began in 1965 with the publication of The Chronicles of the Times of Victor Podgursky. During the years of the "thaw," his name thundered in literary circles. Gladilin’s works are on a par with books by such authors as Aksyonov, Okudzhava, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Akhmadulin.
Biography
Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich was born in 1935 in Moscow. He studied at the Literary Institute. Gorky, but did not finish it. After the first works were published in Yunost, there was a long stagnation in the work. Fortunately, the writer received an invitation to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, for which he wrote articles for a short time.
Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich worked for several years in the editorial office of the film studio. Gorky. In the sixties, the writer began to prove himself as an active public figure. For example, he supported the writers Sinyavsky and Daniel during a high-profile trial.
In 1972, Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich published the story "Forecast for Tomorrow." A few years later, the writer emigrated. He has been living in France for more than thirty years.
Sixties writer
During the thaw, when literature was the only outlet for Soviet people, Gladilin's prose occupied a relatively modest place. In the sixties, the Yunost magazine owed its millions of copies to renowned authors whose works later became classics. The hero of this article was quickly forgotten by compatriots.
Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich, whose biography was typical for writers of the sixties and seventies (difficulty in publishing works, emigration), in his books sought to answer the question of how to live in this difficult time without repeating the mistakes of his fathers. The Gospel of Robespierre is a novel dedicated to revolutionaries. The last work, written in the Soviet Union - “Weather Forecast” - could only be printed in Germany. Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich, whose books began to appear in the early sixties, was often compared with the writer Francoise Sagan.
Young author
The first work of Gladilin, which Soviet readers had the pleasure of reading, was written when the author was barely twenty. He was compared with the French prose writer Sagan. After all, the literary path of the famous writer also began very early: at seventeen. However, the difference was in fees. Sagan received a huge amount for her first novel. She could exist in the future quite comfortably, if not for a wasteful and rampant way of life. Gladilin received pennies for his debut work, The Chronicle of the Times of Victor Podgursky.
Anti-Soviet novelist
Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich, whose works resonated in the sixties, adhered to the views that censorship workers called “anti-patriotic”. It is known that this writer led a bright, eventful life in his youth. He was familiar with outstanding theater and film actresses. Among his close friends was Marina Vlady, who in the first years of her stay in the Soviet Union, not having time to realize the naivety of her romantic beliefs, once asked the prose writer a rhetorical question: “Why are you so anti-Soviet?” In order to answer it, you had to be born and grow up in this country. But despite the generally accepted opinion, Gladilin was never a dissident. He did not dream of overthrowing the Soviet regime and believed that it was for centuries.
First trip to the West
For the man who lived his life behind the Iron Curtain, Europe seemed the promised land. In 1962, a group of Soviet writers visited Paris. Gladilin was also part of it. The writers were monitored by KGB officers. They were taken to the "city of lovers" according to strict instructions. Despite constant monitoring, the writer was amazed. Paris seemed to him a real paradise. And only after years Gladilin realized that it was one thing to visit this city as a tourist, it was quite another to live here.
Emigration
Like many other writers of the second half of the last century, Gladilin was forced to leave the country in order to avoid arrest. In addition, many works were stored in his desk that Soviet censorship would never have missed. The writer emigrated. But years later he admitted that if he knew about the impending perestroika, he would never have left the Soviet Union. In the West there was freedom. Literary works in Paris were not censored. But there were no readers.
In Paris, Gladilin forced himself to forget that he was a famous writer. He got a job at Radio Liberty. Outstanding Soviet writers, who were also forced to leave the Soviet Union once, became prose writer’s colleagues. Journalism carried Gladilin. Fiction faded into the background.
Books
At home, Gladilin managed to print three works. Among them is the historical novel “Dreams of the Shlisselburg Fortress”. The main character of the book is Ippolit Myshkin, who made an attempt to take Chernyshevsky out of Siberia. In the Soviet Union, the novel "The Secret of Zhenya Sidorov" was published.
In Paris, Gladilin wrote "Big Running Day", "Cypress in the Snow" and several documentary works.
Other books of Gladilin:
- "Smoke in the eyes."
- "Eternal business trip."
- "Tamerlane's Sword."
- The Shadow of the Horseman.
- "Street of the generals."
Personal life
Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich left for emigration with his wife. The writer’s family, however, was not alone. When he left the USSR, his personal life was rather confused. A few years after arriving in France, Gladilin met with his ex-wife. A few months later it turned out that she was expecting a baby. The writer managed to take her out of the Soviet Union. Today Gladilin is the head of a large family. The writer has two daughters from different marriages, grandchildren. From time to time, he visits his homeland and willingly gives interviews to Russian journalists.