Irving show biography

Born: February 27, Irwin Show became one of the few writers who could put high literature into a deceptively simple form of entertaining fiction. The novels of Irwin Show not only invariably became bestsellers, were repeatedly repaired and filmed, and entered the golden fund of literature of the twentieth century. Soon, after the birth of Irwin, the family moves to Brooklyn, and changes his last name to the show.

The writer spent children and youth in Brooklyn, where in his youth he experienced a strong impact of the spiritual climate of the “red thirties”; He was fond of B. Brecht, F. Lorca, E., after the end of the Brooklyn College, earned a living by composing radio series for the popular show "Andy Gump" and "Dick Tracy". In the year, the New World magazine published a play of a twenty -year -old American, which was called "betray the dead land." It was the debut of Irwin show.

A year later, the play “Defense the Dead Earth” was set on Broadway. The show expresses his rejection of the war with the mouths of the dead soldiers, who, having rebelled from the dead, turn to the auditorium. Irwin show publishes his first stories in the magazines New Yorker and Esquire. The growing threat of fascism and the entire atmosphere of the pre -war years, the era of open social antagonisms, depression, anger, make the stories of the show collected in the book “Sailor from Bremen”.

In X show writes scripts for several films. With the outbreak of World War II, the pacifist of the show, he volunteered for the front; For several years he was a military correspondent. The experience of the war years formed the basis of his best novel “Young Lions”, whose share was a huge success - he became a bestseller, and was also highly appreciated by criticism.

The novel stands among the best works about the Second World War. This quality brings the book a show closer to European than the American novel about the war. Heroes are trying to find their own place in a fight with fascism, without losing the consciousness of the historical significance of the event that broke their life. The fascism is interpreted by the show as evidence of bankruptcy of beautifully liberal illusions, ignoring the real inconsistency of the principles laid down in a person, and the terrible power of fanaticism, mastering the crowd.

The novel was filmed in the year. The second novel “Rebelled Air” The worried broadcast contained a painful picture of American life, squeezed by a stray of McCartism. The novel was published in the city of the heads of film companies entered Irwin show on the black list of Hollywood. Hemingway lessons are felt in all books of the show, determining the dominant type of hero. This is a laconic person, endowed with a strong will, with a courage that again and again checks fate, as if setting to make sure that under her blows a person becomes “stronger on the break”.

In the city, the show will declare that this black list only “slightly contempt” his career. Polished to the perfection of prose, so typical of Irwin show, completely shoved in his later, larger works. However, it sounds great in early short stories, which, as you know, are one of the most complex literary genres. In the years, the show created many beautiful samples of “small prose”.

The shortages of the show are distinguished by the grace of the style and accuracy of the characteristics - both psychological and social. Behind the first collection of short stories, the “sailor from Bremen”, followed “Welcome to the Big City! During his life in Europe, the show wrote a number of books: “Lucy Krown”, “Two weeks in another city”, “Memories of loss” like many novelists of the 10ths, the show moved in Hemingway, developing the generous artistic capabilities of subtext, understatement, using the method of “objective description”, to transmit the nuances of psychology.

In the best stories of the show, love for ordinary Americans is combined with concern - consumer attitude, petty concerns grow, acts, thoughts, guidelines are standardized. The characters of his short story lead a completely prosperous existence, but one fine day they suddenly embrace a sense of the wrong way of lifestyle, which until recently seemed natural and reasonable. The classic of American literature and the best work of the show is the novel “Rich, Poor” - a family chronicle of the post -war years, depicting an American national character and individual human fates against the background of significant social events.

The novel reproduces the essential features of the post -war American life, and the process of degradation of the person who subordinated to the spirit of division is described. In America, a true American is a man who "made himself." The show offers to get acquainted with people who destroyed themselves, for they believed in false ideals, chased at pseudo -priests. The novel has more than once filmed by filmmakers of various countries.

The film, staged in the Riga studio based on the novel “The Rich, Poor”, enjoyed a huge audience success in Russia. The show returned to the continuation of the saga only seven years later, in the novel “The Beggar, Thief”.In the interval, he created two novels: “Evening in Byzantium” and “Night Porter” built in the form of a traditional family chronicle, the dilogy traced the inevitable breakdown of the connections between people who have chosen the opposite orientations for themselves: conformist, like the “rich” Rudolph, and the rebellious, as the “poor” Thomas, and then his son, oxy, revenge for the death of the father.

After the novels “Rich, Poor” and “The Beggar, Thief” in Russian, the name of Irwin Show took barely the first line of popularity in our country among foreign writers. In the novel “Evening in Byzantium”, the show sought to recreate the origins of the spiritual crisis experienced by American society in E GG. Talking about the filmmaker, experiencing the state of a creative impasse, the show managed to create an expressive image of the era, marked by mass disappointment in the original American ideals and, which grew on this basis, the “youth revolution”, which turned out to be insolvent with all its radicalism.

The collection “Five Decades” presents the best novels of the writer, characterized by grace of style and accuracy of characteristics - both psychological and social.

Irwin Show is an author who has a truly unique ability to combine depth in his works, the fascination of intense intrigue and amazing knowledge of human psychology. A skillfully built plot, an exciting intrigue, polished dialogs, vivid images of characters and emotional intensity of feelings - all these are components of a unique style of the nine -enellist. He became one of the few writers who could put a high literary essence into a deceptive simple form of entertaining fiction.

In the novel “Bread on Water”, the talent of a show, who could find serious moral conflicts in the thick of everyday life - like the one that the hero of this novel faces, a school teacher, whose disinterested defense was an unreliable protection when the capricase of Fortune allowed him to join the world of great money. The writer died on May 16 in Davos Switzerland. Irwin Show will remain in the history of American literature as the author of books marked by true humanism, imbued with real pain and anxiety for a person, the confidence that a person, in the words of Faulkner, will “stand and triumph”.

Bibliography - “betray the dead earth” Play - “Siege” Play - “Sailor from Bremen” Collection of stories.