Who is the author of the story "Girls"?

Few people, especially from the older generation, did not watch the wonderful comic comedy "Girls", the main role in which was played by talented Nadezhda Rumyantseva. The script for the film was written by the author of the story "The Girls" Boris Bedny. The article is devoted to him and his work.

short biography

He was born in 1916 in the village of Yaroslavl in the Kuban in a family of teachers. He graduated with honors from the Maikop Forestry Technical School and was enrolled in the Leningrad Forestry Academy. Here he began to write. The first attempts were very successful. He was accepted into various literary circles and studios. Literary activity did not prevent Poor from learning as an engineer for water felling in the forest. Before the Great Patriotic War he worked on the rivers of the North.

He was called in the ranks of the Red Army in 1941 in the rank of junior lieutenant. Was appointed commander of the infantry platoon. In the summer of 1941, in violent battles near Voronezh, he was surrounded, he knew all the horrors of captivity. Demobilized in October 1945, also in the rank of junior lieutenant.

Immediately after the war, I again went to the North to work in my specialty.

However, the future author of the story "Girls" did not forget about her love for literature. He writes a lot, is published in Komi in the republican newspaper For a New North. In 1948 he made a sharp turn and entered the Literary Institute. His main activity was writing. Boris Bednogo was published in prestigious magazines - Ogonyok, Novyi mir, Literaturnaya gazeta.

In 1950, Boris married a girl named Maria, who was much younger than him. They settled in a rented dacha in the suburbs, since Poor by that time was earning well. His career was rapidly rising. In 1951 he was admitted to the Union of Writers, taught at the Literary Institute, conducted a seminar at the Higher Poetry Courses.

In 1976, at the sixtieth year of life, he suddenly died.

The most famous work of the writer

From the pen of Boris Bedny left a lot of wonderful works, but he was remembered as the author of the story "Girls". It was published and republished in the USSR in thousand copies, became the favorite book of millions of Soviet citizens. According to the written Poor script was put the comedy of the same name, which has been in theaters for many decades and still gathers thousands of spectators at the screens.

But not only in the homeland, the one who wrote "Girls" got recognition and fame. The story was translated into 15 languages, published in large editions in 20 countries. The author was enthusiastic about foreign critics. He was invited to a conference in France, which, unfortunately, he was not able to get.

What was it that attracted the readers of the novel "The Girls" by Boris Bedny?

Summary

The plot of the story is simple. It tells about the seventeen-year-old girl Antonina, who all affectionately called Tosya.

Tosya - an orphan, her parents were killed during the Great Patriotic War, and the girl was brought up in an orphanage in Voronezh. After the release she managed to work in a local state farm and a housekeeper in a family of scientists. But, as Tosya herself put it, the work of the housekeeper "dragged her," she felt "subhuman." Therefore, "having surprised scientists with their black ingratitude," she threw everything and went to a remote taiga northern settlement "to build communism."

Here, Tosya was placed in a dormitory with four girls. The main heroine of the story was entrusted with a difficult task - "to feed huge loggers" - they appointed a cook. To the surprise of everyone, a small, but agile and hardworking Tosya coped with the task perfectly. She not only cooked tasty boiled cabbage soup and hearty cereal, but also monitored the personal hygiene of workers, conveniently arranged a kitchen trailer.

At the first dance evening, Tosya attracted attention with a vicious character. She flatly refused to dance with a guy who treated her with insufficient respect. In the village for one guy accounted for 10 girls, so this behavior of "dull Tosya" led everyone to bewildered. And, in order to punish the newcomer and prove his irresistibility, the first handsome in the village (Ilya) argued on the hat with the first bully (Fili) that Tosya would fall in love with him.

Ilia made friends with Tosei, spent a lot of time with her and did not notice how he fell in love with this plain girl with a big heart. Now he is afraid that she will find out about the dispute and will despise "handsome." Tosya still finds out about the dispute and feels a "mortal" offense. Ilya had to persevere for a long time and persistently, but in the end, between the young people the world is restored, because Tosya also fell in love with the guy: "It's not his fault that he was born beautiful!"

Storylines

The author of the story "Girls", in addition to the main storyline of Tosya and Ilya, describes the fate of four other of her neighbors:

• Ringing and gay Katerina, who meets with "club-footed" Sasha. They are so smooth and good that they do not quarrel over anything;
• Very beautiful Anfisa, who did not have a destiny;
• Ugly Hope, who does not believe that someone can truly like someone, and hopelessly intends to marry an elderly Xan Xanich. Watching Toshi's young love, Hope will not understand how this odd-looking girl managed to frown the first guy in the village;
• Faith, which young Tosya often does not understand: "Who will understand them, thirty-year-old co-editors ..." Vera herself very well understands the direct and naive "vzbalamoshennuyu" Tosya. She saw her humanity and resolutely took it under her protection.

The secret of phenomenal success

The story "Girls" is not distinguished by a cunning plot, written in simple language with a certain amount of good-humored humor. Boris Bedny does not use poetic tweaks and literary devices. This is not a sentimental love story or an exciting detective story. What is the secret of success of the story?

In her sincerity, good-natured naivety and sweet cunning. The reader not only enjoys reading the love story, he rests with his soul, touching the pure and kind heart of the main character. Anyone who gets to know Tosei involuntarily gets her faith in the best in people, becomes infected with her irrepressible energy and gets a dose of her courage.