Новеллы моей жизни

Ėta kniga - ne memuary, khoti͡a v neĭ Natalii͡a Sat͡s vspominaet o mnogom i mnogikh. "Puteshestvie po ėpizodam odnoĭ zhizni, ostanovki okolo interesnykh li͡udeĭ" - tak ona opredelila zhanr svoikh "Novell". Zhanr neobychnyĭ, o kotorom nichego ne skazano v uchebnikakh po literaturovedenii͡u. Natalii͡a Sat͡s i sama byla chelovekom neobychnym. Rodilasʹ ona v nachale KhKh veka, "eshche pri t͡sare", i prozhila vesʹ slozhnyĭ i vremenami strashnyĭ KhKh vek pochti do samogo ego kont͡sa. I ne prosto prozhila - vyderzhala vse ispytanii͡a, vystoi͡ala i ne sdalasʹ. Vse, o chem mechtala, sbylosʹ: imi͡a Natalii Sat͡s nosi͡at osnovannyĭ ei͡u v Alma-Ate teatr dli͡a deteĭ i i͡unoshestva i unikalʹnyĭ, ne imei͡ushchiĭ analogov v mire Detskiĭ muzykalʹnyĭ teatr v Moskve na prospekte Vernadskogo. "S detstva meni͡a nauchili zamechatʹ interesnoe v kazhdom cheloveke. … Chelovekovedenie! Kakai͡a ėto neobkhodimai͡a nauka! … V iskusstve teatra bez nee nichego ne sozdashʹ, ne sumeeshʹ povesti za soboĭ". Kazhdyĭ, kto prochitaet ėtu knigu, uvidit ėtot pristalʹnyĭ interes avtora k okruzhai͡ushchim li͡udi͡am, vnimanie k nim, popytku razgadatʹ kazhdogo, podmetitʹ ego unikalʹnostʹ, nepokhozhestʹ. I li͡udi, kotorye vstretilisʹ Natalii Sat͡s v ee "puteshestvii po zhizni", - takie zhe neordinarnye, interesnye, i͡arkie, kak ona sama, ona vovlekala na svoi͡u orbitu tolʹko takikh. Ėto Paustovskiĭ i Ėĭnshteĭn, Stanislavskiĭ i Mikhail Kolʹt͡sov, Alekseĭ Tolstoĭ i Sergeĭ Prokofʹev i mnogie, mnogie drugie. "Novelly moeĭ zhizni" - interesneĭshee chtenie: ėto dokument ėpokhi, rasskaz o li͡udi͡akh i sobytii͡akh, a glavnoe, istorii͡a zhizni samoĭ Natalii Sat͡s, istorii͡a, kotorai͡a vo sto krat interesnee li͡ubogo romana.

This book is not a memoir, although Natalia Sats remembers many things in it. "A journey through episodes of one life, stops near interesting people" — this is how she defined the genre of her "Short Stories". The genre is unusual, which is not mentioned in textbooks on literary studies. Natalia Sats was an unusual person herself. She was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, "still under the tsar," and lived through the entire difficult and sometimes terrible twentieth century almost to its very end. And she didn't just live — she passed all the tests, stood up and didn't give up. Everything I dreamed of has come true: Natalia Sats is named after the Theater for Children and Youth founded by her in Alma Ata and the unique Children's Musical Theater in Moscow on Vernadsky Avenue, which has no analogues in the world. "Since childhood, I've been taught to notice the interesting things in every person. ... Human studies! What a necessary science this is! … In the art of theater, you can't create anything without her, you can't lead." Everyone who reads this book will see the author's intense interest in the people around him, his attention to them, his attempt to unravel each one, to notice his uniqueness and dissimilarity. And the people Natalia Sats met in her "journey through life" are as extraordinary, interesting, and vibrant as she is, and she attracted only such people into her orbit. These are Paustovsky and Einstein, Stanislavsky and Mikhail Koltsov, Alexey Tolstoy and Sergei Prokofiev, and many, many others. "The novels of my life" — the most interesting reading: This is a document of the era, a story about people and events, and most importantly, the life story of Natalia Sats herself, a story that is a hundred times more interesting than any novel.