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Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (Russian: Вениами́н Алекса́ндрович Каве́рин; né Вениами́н А́белевич Зи́льбер (Veniamin Abelevich Zilber); April 19 [O.S. April 6] 1902 – May 2, 1989) was a Soviet and Russian writer, dramatist and screenwriter associated with the early 1920s ...
The Two Captains (Russian: Два Капитана) is a novel written by Soviet author Veniamin Kaverin between 1937 and 1946. It is Kaverin's best known work and is considered one of the most popular works of Soviet literature, winning the USSR State Prize in 1946 and being reissued 42 times in 25
Kaverin's career from its slow and difficult beginnings, advising the young writer never to let himself be dis- couraged by adverse criticism, no matter how severe.
Two Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from 1912 to 1944. For more than half a century the book has been loved by children and adults alike. The novel has undergone more than 100 printings, including translations into other languages.
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Nov 4, 2020 · Veniamin Kaverin’s novel Before the Mirror, written in 1965-1970, is a penetrating story of love told in letters, about the life of an unordinary woman who seeks and finds herself. The prototypes of Kaverin’s heroes were the artist Lidia Nikanorova and the professor of mathematics Pavel Bezsonov (in the novel Liza Turaeva and ...
Kaverin, Veniamin Aleksandrovich. (Real family name, Zilber.) Born 19 April 1902 (6 April, Old Style) in Pskov, the son of a band conductor. He studied at the Pskov gymnasium and, while there, began to write poetry. At age 16 he moved to Moscow where, in 1919, he entered the history-philology faculty of Moscow University.
This chapter examines the metafictional works of Soviet author Veniamin Kaverin. Kaverin was prominent in protesting publicly against the time-serving conformism or forced capitulation often detectable in military career patterns and in defending a writerly autonomy understood as freedom to pursue the writer's traditional role as independent ...
