He built-building-and finally built

Eduard Uspensky - 80 years old

On December 22, 2017, the writer Eduard Uspensky is 80 years old. The editors are slightly puzzled: how to congratulate the phenomenon of nature on his birthday? Meanwhile, the Assumption Eduard Nikolaevich, a half -gray and a gray -eyed man, like a clown of the highest artistic quality, to the pirate captain, to all his characters at once - from Uncle Fedor to the Galchonka Ruatayka - has long crossed this category.

He is the natural strip of Russia. He is eternal. The grandchildren of their first readers are growing on his books. And many more generations of citizens of the Russian Federation will remember in childhood and vote in a good company “Let them run awkwardly ...”, “Blue car”, “Listen, crow ...”, “Antoshka, Antoshka, let's go dig potatoes!”, “Red, red, hemp” (you thought it is folk?! No, this is the Assumption, only very young).

Citizens-sooles for a long time (centuries, her!) Will divide the characters of their neighbors into sausage and vennico-injective, mutter in difficult years: “But I will not be anything. I will save ”, remember that the crocodile Gene worked in the zoo with a crocodile, and exhale on the highest take-offs of his professional life:“ We built and built-and finally built. ”

There are already few-exclusively old-timers-they remember that in the early 1980s, the central periodicals seriously fought with Eduard Assumption and Bezrodny Cosmopolitan. And the struggle, one might say, was the king-gun of the children's literature of the USSR-S. V. Mikhalkov himself.

Yes, and the story “Uncle Fedor, dog and cat” (1974)-maybe his main book-Uspensky wrote, being excommunicated from editing publishers. Out of perseverance. Contrary to. This is a character.

If you look at: he raised us quite tough. Its values ​​are courage, stubbornness, labor (labor, labor, labor and labor!), Laughter and common sense.

All this, as valuable additives, is thrown by his fairy tales in the alloy, in a boiling (in each of a single head of a child or a parent) boiler, where the national character of the 21st century was smelted. It helped many. Our common uncle is the cat Matroskin. For forty years, as he knows how, he compensates for the influence of that part of our relatives, which is the class from the seventh and forever gets tired, so tired that he cannot watch the TV ...

The crocodile of Gene with the company, including, of course, a hat with Lariska on a leash, the brave colonists of an abandoned village of Prostokvashino, the whole school of clowns, guarantee men, a girl Vera and monkey Anfisa, a professor of teapots and all-all-all were unsinkable in any historical times. The author endowed them with his gift of laughter, the gift of stubbornness, common sense, brilliant (look: these are certainly not toys!) The gift of the stylist. “The investigation is led by Kolobok” ... And the first attempt to collect children's folklore of the 20th century - selfless horror stories about black street and red hand ... and the great radio program “Ships entered our harbor” - also a quite pioneering attempt to collect song folklore of the USSR, in which the courtyard song was so easily moved to camp and front -line ... All this is the Assumption.

“New Gazeta” - all, as much as it is - grew on his books. And the chorus congratulates the writer.