Daughter of Ivan, mother of Ivan

The book of Valentin Rasputin, the great Russian writer and one of the most striking representatives of “village prose”, included stories of the 1990s, including “unexpectedly unexpectedly”, “In the same Earth ...” and others, as well as the story “The daughter of Ivan, the mother of Ivan” (2003), created after a long break in creativity and caused many polar response and disputes. “In this story is our difficult life,” the author admitted. -Maybe I exaggerated something there, but the story affects the reader not only with described events, but also with the language. And it seems to me that the language itself does not give a sensation of the last severity, from it, from the Russian language, as if the sun shines. And in all my things, I tried to be the sun ...