Plaque on the Peterburg house where Abramov lived from 1982 until his death in 1983.
Fjodor Aleksandrovitsj Abramov (Russian: Фёдор Александрович Абрамов) (Verkola, Archangelsk, 29 February 1920 - St. Petersburg, May 14, 1983) was a Russian writer.
Life and workAbramov is a childhood family, whose father died when he was two. He was volunteer during World War II and studied philology at the University of St. Petersburg, where he also professed from 1956 to 1960. Since then, he devoted himself exclusively to literary work: novels, stories and essays.
As a writer, Abramov is counted on the great names of the post-war Russian village prose. In a sober yet striking style, he gives a true picture of the hard rural life. Thus, in the essay Vokrug da okolo (1963, To the Hot Mummy), he sketches the malaise of a Kolchoz and denies the discrimination of the rural population through the passport system. Psychological depiction of the characters and ethical and moral questions make the most of his work. Many of his books have an open end.
Abramov was best known by his tetralogy Brothers and sisters (1958), Two winters and three summers (1968), Roads and intersections (1973) and The House (1978), about farm life in northern Russia. The books describe the life of the heavily provoked Michail Praslin, a youngster who shows great heroism and self-sacrifice because he experiences it as his moral duty. In 1975 Abramov received the State Prize of the Soviet Union for this series.
Because of the many uses of dialect, Abramov's work is difficult to translate. However, in Russia, he still enjoys great popularity. Bibliography (selection)
Romancyclus "De Prjaslins"
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