Страна, где нет смерти

Stiven Vinsent Bene - klassik amerikanskoĭ literatury, dvazhdy laureat Pulitt͡serovskoĭ premii, plotʹ ot ploti togo i͡archaĭshego pokolenii͡a, chto dalo nam Fit͡sdzheralʹda, Kheminguėi͡a i Folknera. Kak master paradoksalʹno-ironicheskoĭ novelly, on, nesomnenno, nasleduet O. Genri, chasto ispolʹzuet istoricheskie, folʹklornye i fantasticheskie si͡uzhety. Dalekoe ili nedavnee proshloe predstaet u nego ozhivshim t͡sarstvom fantazii. Zdesʹ na amerikanskom frontire razygryvai͡utsi͡a si͡uzhety antichnoĭ mifologii, gosudarstvennyĭ sekretarʹ SShA mozhet sosti͡azatʹsi͡a v sude s samim dʹi͡avolom za dushu soseda-fermera, otstavnoĭ maĭor frant͡suzskoĭ artillerii - fantazirovatʹ na vodakh o zavoevanii mira, zaezzhai͡a evropeĭskai͡a znamenitostʹ - dirizhirovatʹ khvostom, bosonogai͡a svi͡atai͡a - otkazyvatʹsi͡a ot imeni, a irlandskiĭ leprekon - pomogatʹ stroitʹ zheleznui͡u dorogu. . . Rasskaz "Dʹi͡avol i Dėniel Uėbster" neodnokratno ėkranizirovalsi͡a: v 1941 godu vyshel poluchivshiĭ "Oskar" filʹm Uilʹi͡ama Diterle, a versii͡a 2004 goda stala rezhisserskim debi͡utom Aleka Bolduina. Rasskaz "Plachushchie zheny" leg v osnovu znamenitogo kinomi͡uzikla Stėnli Donena "Semʹ nevest dli͡a semi bratʹev" (1954), nominirovannogo na pi͡atʹ "Oskarov" i poluchivshego odin. "Strana, gde net smerti" - ėto samoe predstavitelʹnoe sobranie sochineniĭ S. V. Bene v mire: kniga vkli͡uchaet vse ego avtorskie sborniki, odin roman i ri͡ad rasskazov, prezhde v sborniki ne vkhodivshikh.

Stephen Vincent Benet is a classic of American literature, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the flesh of the flesh of that brightest generation that gave us Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner. As a master of the paradoxically ironic short story, he undoubtedly inherits O. Henry, and often uses historical, folklore, and fantasy plots. The distant or recent past appears to him as a revived realm of fantasy. Here, on the American frontier, the plots of ancient mythology are played out, the US Secretary of State can compete in court with the devil himself for the soul of a farmer neighbor, a retired major of the French artillery can fantasize on the waters about conquering the world, a visiting European celebrity can conduct a tail, a barefoot saint can give up her name, and an Irish leprechaun can help build a railroad. . . The story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has been repeatedly filmed: in 1941, William Dieterle's Oscar-winning film was released, and the 2004 version became Alec Baldwin's directorial debut. The story "Crying Wives" became the basis for Stanley Donen's famous film musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954), which was nominated for five Oscars and won one. "The Land where there is no Death" is the most representative collection of S. V. Bene's works in the world: the book includes all his author's collections, one novel and a number of short stories that were not previously included in the collections.