Текст песни Валерий Глебов - Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего Я сижу на берегу 02

Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego has a terrible biography. His mother, Aurora Gallego, was the daughter of the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party, Ignacio Gallego. The father belonged to the Venezuelan freedom fighters. Both mother and father studied at the Moscow institutes for some time. In 1968 they had two twin sons. But one kid died immediately, and another fell ill with cerebral palsy. The second was Ruben. The Kremlin doctors fought for Ruben for more than a year. But they did not manage to heal the grandson of the leader of the Spanish Communists. It was necessary to determine what to do next. However, her mother had other plans: she fell in love with the young Soviet writer Sergei Yurenen and soon left with him to Paris. And his father returned to Venezuela. It was later said about him that he was engaged in political terror. And the sick boy was eventually given to one of the Moscow orphanages. When Gallego was fifteen years old, he was transferred to Novocherkassk. There he entered a commercial and technical college, got married, gave birth to a daughter. Then followed a divorce, a new marriage and the birth of a second daughter. It was in Novocherkassk that Gallego had an interest in literature. Already in 2003 he recalled: "I lived in Novocherkassk, my health was very bad, and during another heart attack, I suddenly saw letters on the ceiling. It sounds romantic, but it was so. And I began to write down these letters, realizing that I was dying. Then he showed these notes to some familiar writers, journalists, and I was told that it is impossible to write like this. I abandoned this business. Then, when I was abroad, I showed my texts to Russian emigrants, and they told me that it's possible to write like this and it's even nothing, just a somewhat strange style. I sat down, quickly wrote several stories and made a broadcast on Radio Liberty. And then Yuz Aleshkovsky told me that I am a real writer "(Izvestia, 2003, December 8). If I understood correctly, Aleshkovsky, when he gave his assessments, first of all had in mind the novel Gallego "in black and white." Gallego wrote this thing in Russian. It was first published in 2002 in the journal Foreign Literature. According to critics, the novel turned out to be very tough. And not only for the topic. The author managed to find the right intonation. I will refer here, at least, to the opinion of the poet Maxim Amelin. According to him, Gallego "language is intentionally neutral, simple words are chosen, but there is a feeling that they are not said by chance. They are not general literary and not well-worn, they perfectly correspond to the content - and this is the harsh truth of life, therefore, the thing is comparable in effect to the influence of "Varlam Shalamov's" Kolyma stories ". Neutral language in this case does some wonderful thing - it brings almost to tears "(Literary Russia, 2003, September 12). In 2003, Gallego received his Russian Booker for his first novel. Another interesting detail related to this book: in French it was translated by the writer's mother - Aurora Gallego. The idea to find the mother of Gonzalez Gallego caught fire in Novocherkassk. Later the filmmakers specially arranged for him a trip to Europe. His mother showed up in Paris.
In 2001, Gallego decided to move to Spain. But he had a longing for Russia, apparently for the rest of his life. It is no accident that he continued to write exclusively in Russian, considering himself the representative of Russian literature. Many critics wondered what theme Gallego would choose for his second book. Alla Latynina, for example, wrote: "The difficulties that Ruben Gonzalez Gallego experienced in the second book are clear. Continue to write about his orphanage from childhood? There is a risk that it will become a liquefied copy of the first, like soup in the writer's story, which was dissolved by water. Sharply change the subject? This means betraying those unhappy people, whose voice was destined to become a writer, to lose a foothold. It is also certain that the author, in his own way, was stung by immoderate praise for his courage, combined with some indulgence towards him as a writer. In the new book by Gonzalez Gallego "I'm sitting on the shore ..." the author clearly intends to change the manner of the narrative, to demonstrate that he is well acquainted with the modern