Thirteen tubes

In June 1922, Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967) wrote to Marina Tsvetaeva: "My vacation was wonderful: the day before yesterday he began a new book. "13 tubes" (13 stories) Which? In vile muddy-to-healing ... It is possible that this classification of other people"s tubes (lives) will help to find some balance. " At first, the tubes described by Ehrenburg had no names - he simply numbered them. But, having gained immense popularity from readers, the pipe also deserved their own names: Kommunar’s tube, a soldier Pierre Dubois, the Lord of the Lord Graiton, the millionaire Van Estherpeda tube, the tribe of Gobulu, the tube of the god Kalabash, the film actor’s tube ... "Ehrenburg in such an entertaining form, in such an entertaining form, in such an entertaining form their thoughts about many important things - about war and peace, about love and hatred, about life and death, about good and evil, about truth and errors, and finally, about the game in the fate of man "(Boris Frezinsky) Created at the dawn of the literary career of the future famous writer, the collection "13 tubes" remained one of his most beloved and most read works.

The accompanying article Semen Bukhina

Semen Vladimirovich Kurdchin (born 1941) - literary critic, critic, prose writer, publicist. Member of the International Pen Club. Doctor of Philology. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University, worked on Belarusian television, at the publishing house "Belarusian Encyclopedia", at the journal Izvestia of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, at the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR. The author of articles and books on the history of Russian literature and journalism of the late XIX - early XX centuries, works in the field of Slavic comparative studies, literary and theatrical criticism. Books were published in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the USA