AFTERWORD
Pentalog to "The Sword and the Cross of rotmistr Kudashev"
Vladimir P. Parkin.
Something about the secrets of the literary trade
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The novel - a person Personality. It can not be more beautiful and more worthy than its author.
The novel can not lie about their authors as to the last he tried to conceal his identity for the "Autobiography", written by his own hand. The essence is not in the secondary, the essence - in the main, basically. Axiom.
Novice writers often ask me how I'm working on a word.
I said five years ago:
-. "In any way I write - as the bird sings without violence against yourself.".
I read today that answer, I wondered.
The word "word" strife. Perhaps the question is incorrect. Specific "litinstitutsky" Slang?
It can be seen, the last time I hurried to answer.
Not just a "simple" question can give a definite answer. Especially on our own great Russian language! Forgive generously, I "polidronoms" and similar (and dissimilar) delights not dabble. Life has learned to speak and write, the more accurately and clearly.
This is especially important in dealing with people of different nationality, a different language, even if they express themselves well in Russian. At least, they do not understand intonation, not to mention the well-known Russian taken in allegories.
Irony - kind of wit - based on intonation. Foreigners do not know Russian proverbs and sayings from classics cruise.
Try to make a joke in a serious business conversation, break off negotiations about this phrase: "Now, just obuyus!". And to close the topic.
Your partners will regard your words as follows: "He agreed only variables shoes.".
The consequences of this lack of understanding can be very sad for the joker.
I write, like all words. But I am working on the idea.
Clear thinking - the correct conclusion - competent presentation.
This is no problem. And there should be.
Without the mind should not be any talk, horrible or write. Sorry, this disease today adopted a global scale! Unless a deliberate outright falsification, merely a lie, then ignorance.
Meditate helpful. Necessary. Slowly. Catch the difference in the words of the Russian language - to think and reflect? This difference can not be translated either into English or in Farsi!
I'm thinking. My thought is always with me. Sorry, I do not have neither the strength nor the time to personally edit all-everything that is written by me for my life. Do not edit the error, but just something to add, to supplement, to speak more accurately! Well, two lives Nobody lived. It is what it is. For his own words in the printed edition answer.
However, the fact I ruled seven times this article! Today, with such urgency in any edition, as a correspondent, it would not help.
How do I work?
I live in the novel world in the flow of available information, the flow of information gathering, the subconscious information processing and boiling in the domain of creativity oven, fantasy, appearing live images of the characters, conflicts, syllogisms, visions and visions, for days, for months in complete isolation from the real world . The result is a new chapter of the novel!
How can I just correct that written? This is equal to that immediately after birth to do plastic surgery newborn child!
That's the trouble Alumni Literary Institute and Philology. That's where absolutely kills creativity gene. In the vast majority of graduates receive critics and editors. Competent, professional, very high erudition. Do not take away. They are capable and to "dissection" of texts, and on the "plastic surgery" works of others, but in the vast majority - not in the self-creation.
Examples abound. Thank God, there are exceptions.
But exceptions - this is an exception.
If there is no ear for music from birth, it is better not to go to the conservatory even the theoretical faculty. Intelligence, even highly developed, creative person is not enough. "Pushkin", "Mozart", "Shostakovich" schools do not prepare, they are born. But even without the formation of "gifts" from birth can not be realized!
Today, the American fashion techniques: divide all to the smallest building blocks of atoms to describe, explore, make a program ("Innovation" referred to), to introduce into the educational process and to produce in batches, trains, "star" of pop, cinema, literature and so on.
Safely unlearn - does not mean - place.
Way of the Cross of the writer only begins!
Studies and diploma given knowledge and profession. You can write and earn a living pen. Some could even white marble palaces to rebuild their fees. Others - check out their way to poverty, mental hospitals, or simply "to lead in my breast." "Everyone chooses for themselves" (Makhtumkuli Fraga). Road by a person who goes through it. And not just talking. There is always a goal. If the goal would be "riches and glory", I not the adviser. I'm just a hard worker. And his "crown of thorns" writer would not wish anyone.
The current "stars" themselves are not born. "Stars", "light up" business professionals. Where to make money, and do publicity. As in the show business, as well as in literature. in this business policy is not the last thing. Including national.
That's just you need to remember: fern flower in the hands of just not given. There is one condition.
However, let's not talk about sad things ...
The word and concept of "talent" in the paddock. But "talent" from God. To Duden, and who not.
Here I sit at the TV, remote control snapping, a hundred digital programs, and often nothing to watch. Modern series - chewing gum for the undeveloped, you can watch between any business from any location, missed the scene or a series, it does not matter ... This is just the trouble.
Decadence? No, the beginning of the end. Subside should subside this "foam". I believe in the New Revival!
Therefore hurry. And to write a novel to a heart attack, and to know that there is, I have readers. Not the ones that "laykayut" for heads of boredom or for the rating, but real. Who not only read, but read and understand, empathize with those who wrote in his own blood, his own life. Not an exaggeration.
I could not not write.
Two years prior to retirement without regret he abandoned his law practice for the first book - "Conquista in Russian." My seven years of life are given only novel "The Sword and the Cross Kudasheva captain," his five books, the process of writing it directly. Without Saturdays and Sundays, no holidays, no shopping and travel. Just type in the thirty years of material, direct their life experience, military service, combat officer, journalism, law, travels, adventures, colleges and universities, the endless road from birth to of no return.
But warm thought: I'll go and Kudashev stay!
And - my dear reader - my little secret of the author's creativity. Do not judge strictly. It is not self-promotion, not a pose ... It's just a memory of one of the happiest days of creation. Day full "immersion" in the image of my hero, in his environment of existence, in his time and place.
And it was so.
Summer, August. The wife of the country, adult children on their own, and not a soul does not hinder me to write ... From sunrise. At lunchtime snack anyhow-that thought and put it on a large plate with a five-liter kastryulischu fruits sultry August. On compote ... And then to work. Under the hands of a keyboard on the display line of heads "Turquoise from Kudasheva". Line by line - and I was not at home, and I was not me! Cinema rest ...
Such happiness transformation and movement in time and space of modern science and technology will not soon will give moviegoers! I not noticed that it was evening. Someone strong enough hands vigorously shook me by the shoulders. He came to himself. Room in blue haze. On white sheets of paper black soot flakes. It must be my younger me. I heard a voice: "Wake up Dad! Finally burned your compote and pan should be thrown out!.!."
Truly!
And this I have been written in this day and for all his life in the literature?
I myself do not all my love.
Many older, more "youthful" stories, poems and povestushki shore, the old junk in the house: throw a pity, because with every little thing some life episode connected.
Another thing - written by inspiration.
My Muse me too familiar, a nice fellow, sometimes the teacher, but by and large - a "connected". With the Higher World, of course. Who of our shop is a phenomenon familiar - I understand. Tom, who is not willing to get a girlfriend, you will not regret! Example: the poem "Forgive me, my dear motherland!" It has been written in three minutes. Immediately. All of a sudden. He started to write the first line did not yet know what will be the second ... last. The poem is born once in full, does not require any changes, or continue. These are the miracles. What do I tell someone to teach ... Alexander has devoted to this phenomenon of his "Little Tragedies" subjects "improviser" and "Mozart and Salieri"!
Thanks to my readers for the evaluation of the hard work, "read Parkin". Five volumes of the novel - most do not believe that mastered this opus.
Wrote - knew that writing not only for their own pleasure - for the reader.
He wrote on the principle that one chapter - a local story. The reader should not get tired of reading. He and other things in life enough. But! The plot with the mandatory continuing. And not necessarily in the next chapter, perhaps in three or four chapters.
Intrigue.
The reader itself ! itself must be willing to turn the page! Dumas wrote his "Three Musketeers", chapter by chapter by publishing in the journal. It was a requirement of the publisher. Sin does not use the classic experience, world authority in this craft!
Copyright retreat.
A difficult topic. However, classical. As a rule, it is an essay on the historical, philosophical and even everyday topics that hasty reader easily skips, trying to plunge headlong into the world of adventure. I do not blame them. At thirteen, he was such a reader. For thirty years my intellect needed a more thorough knowledge. Leo Tolstoy, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola and others have taught me not to give up a more attentive reading of these derogations.
I learned a lot, reading Victor Hugo, his "Les Miserables." The unique thing to put next to nothing. It should be read.
If you look on-screen performances, with Gabin is still possible, with Depardieu - an amateur.
It is better to read! Biography Dolorosa escaped convict Jean Valjean and his antipode policeman Javert quite trivial copyright without digressions on the theme of the French Revolution, the history of Paris, the history of the criminal investigation in France. Why are only the head of the Parisian "argot" - slang for "Parisian cesspool" of the "monastery", "mines and miners", "Louis Philippe" and others.
Without these and other essays - France and the Paris of the first half of the 19th century - not France and not Paris. Live heroes of the novel can not exist and work is a blank background in non-objective medium as cardboard puppets.
Daniel Defoe. Almost all readers adapted, in which dozens of action movies filmed. But the author's book - a philosophical-religious work. Solid volume. Briefly - Robinson escaped from his home boys who needed "a lot at once!". He started young Mr. Crusoe adventurer, colonizer and slave-slave owners, rich in the first year of adventures. But his fortune changed in the second voyage for the next "live goods". Further, in brief, it is widely known. Years of loneliness have benefited to the aging realized the true purpose of man on earth!
Well, on this subject can be to infinity.
Well, if the reader my author retreats will be no reads such original essays as "On intelligence", "Equilibrium", "Bonaparte and Barclay of-Tolly," "Russian and foreigners," "Espionage in the East", others stories - are not big trouble.
But it will no longer be able to properly understand the true causes of acts of heroes, to assess their significance. Not to mention the fact that new knowledge is never useless.
Volume, volume, but it can evaluate only one who read it! And read the five volumes in our crazy, moving to space speed time - almost a feat. Author pleased with this reader. Conclusion Thank God wrote not only for himself, for his close circle of people and fathers of the Patriarchs of the Union of Writers and the Union of Translators!
There are readers not post. If there is, if there were, so also will be. Forever and ever.
I share the secret: conceived the novel in thirty years. He began to collect material. From time to time I threw a thesis. He worked in the archives, had access to the Soviet era, straps helped, although the application for the story of "Revolution, 1905" has not been performed, but the collected material formed the basis of adventure captain Kudasheva. The main source of information - CSA TSSR - archive of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1980.
O Lord! What it was wealth. What a joy to come into contact with him, to keep in the hands of priceless treasures and read, read, read with gusto private letters and official correspondence of famous personalities - Skobelev, Kuropatkin, Komarov, Rerberg, Makhtum Kuli Khan ... Today, this file is not available to anyone. If he is not sacked "pious overseas funds" ... In any case, these treasures to Russia completely unavailable, lost forever.
While the archives copies of the materials did not even record selected. To save memory. Upon returning from the archives recorded on the memory read. Much - word for word. I kept cherished notebooks for almost thirty years. Useful! However, no claims for the academic historical work. But by this and I did not try. History - just a good background, as well as form - military adventures. However, this form is conditional enough, need to publish as a label, shelf number.
The novel is widely deployed in time and in space. Me in a novel manner, as in a kaleidoscope, the whole era, political upheaval, war, countries, people, national and religious customs, the tragedy of peoples and individuals, natural landscapes ...
Several storylines.
On line the main character, whose name is rendered in the title Pentalog -
this entire article. A novel about it.
Road way of life - not vyloschennye avenues of London and St. Petersburg, not Piccadilly, not Nevsky.
Alexander G. Kudashev, a Russian middle class, by fate torn from their homeland, from the traditional way of life, abandoned in a giant world of warring states, nations, politics, religion, ideologies, languages and customs have survived alone, did not give himself neither kill nor subdue the hostile will of someone else, a different way of thinking and way of life, living and acting in the complex world of human relations, while remaining what he was born and brought up by their father and mother - the son of Russia.
Other storylines.
Even the secondary characters have a right to their own chapter, or even three. And this technique is very important. Why such "distractions" from the general line of the main character?
Defined in the terminology. This is not a "distraction", not a literary "chaos". This second narrative plan, which are such heroes of the novel, the father of Alexander Kudashev - captain of the gendarmerie (rotmistr) Georgy Kudashev, grandson of Alexander Kudashev, Major NG USSR shuravi Alexander G. Naydenov, as captain of the gendarmerie (rotmistr) Johann von Kuster, Colonel Dzeboev Vladimir G., Colonel Alan Fitzgerald Mack'Lesson (Gul-Padishah Sayyid), a German resident Claus Penk, Zbigniew Voitinsky nobleman, Turkmen-Karasakal Sardar and many others.
he true scale of the personality of Captain Kudasheva it would be impossible to realize without comparing it with other existing characters of the novel. His enemies and friends are not the last people in their own environment, strong, brave, smart. We learn each of them on the author's performance, but by their actions, according to their works. That is why the author has given to each of them enough pages in the novel.
And women? Love? Painful melodramatic triangle ?!
Well, from the words of the song will not throw ... Not without it. Women - the true character of his time, deserving of great love and true man's devotion. Would not it be them - there would be no Kudashev, such as he is, how he got through the narrative of the novel. Life is life. Who is the first to throw a stone at him ?!
Storylines minor characters in the story line interwoven with the protagonist describe him better than any other literary devices. Difficult to grasp? Depending on the reader's level of intelligence. Difficult, but not boring. Thus, the three chapters of adventure Vladikavkaz merchant Samvel Tatuntsa could successfully be called a separate story. There are a grateful readers. There are others, without them! The political moment. The question of genocide. Questions of war and peace. But without these chapters would not have formed a whole novel of five books.
In the novel, there is no character, no actor, which could be characterized unequivocally. As in real life. The reader has a choice in the assessment, in the preferences.
There is a third plan: documentary, without it not reproduce the atmosphere of authenticity described historical events.
Fourth - candid reflections of the author, his personal view of the personal vision and diverse evaluations of individual facts of world history ...
It briefly. Retell the novel in this record is not necessary.
The main thing - those novel narrative lines that are not visible at first glance, as the underlying flow into the sea ... And not only! And by them will not pass any reader, something in the consciousness and subconscious postponed. The plan - the quintessence of the life experience of the author, who has repeatedly saved his own life and took care of in the most critical situations, shaped him as a person with an active lifestyle hard.
I did not try to bring these deep lines in the visual publicly plane form of their sentences, which could be, if you like, philosophical and political platform of awareness and understanding of the world of readers. It would be too easy. It was not a novel but a fable. I can not stand "head-propaganda."
Each reader will make of my literary world that sees fit. Those new meaningful knowledge that might help, and my reader at a difficult time selecting. May God !!!
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- "That's all the secrets of the literary craft?" - Asks himself the question a reader, after reading this article. - "Okay, we know! Not so much, not so secret ...".
Familiar with such esteemed readers personally. Especially with those who are seen as the final novel in the achievement of the hero fame, fortune ... incredible wealth! Why, then, the final novel is called "The Mystery of Turkestan gold '?
My answer: the latest novel is titled "The Chronicles of rotmistr (сaptain) Kudashev Mystery Turkestan gold '. The mystery of it is a mystery. And to this day a mystery. And the key to this mystery in the novel named. Here are just a bank safes under these keys are not available to adventurers. They are protected by the entire military might of the empire ... What? Really - Mystery?
No, it's not a mystery novel. But your own secret is! It is in the novel. Bad is the novel in which there is no secret! Not what he was. The keys to this mystery already laid in the soul of every dear reader, the last near a rotmistr Kudashev throughout its life. I believe the hour when these "keys" in the very heart Reader suddenly open to him this mystery!
With immense respect and low Russian bow your Parkin.
December 6, 2016. Moscow.
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Author's translation from Russian into English Vladimir P. Parkin
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A photo:
This, I am too, Vladimir P.Parkin.
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