Lopatkin Dmitry Biography

To take or give - for which the inventor Dmitry Lopatkin fought on August 16 to take or give - for which the inventor Dmitry Lopatkin fought 65 years ago in August's issue of the New World magazine, the publication of the novel by Vladimir Dudintsev "not by bread unified." The novel was printed in three numbers and became a loud event in literature, caused acute discussions, disputes.

And today, decades after the release, the work of Dudidsev sounds as relevant as possible. Roman talks about the struggle of the inventor Dmitry Alekseevich Lopatkin for the fate of his brainchild - a car for casting pipes. Officials and scientists-engineers-recognized authorities in mechanical engineering, pushing their, no good car, are not allowed to introduce an advanced invention into production.

Lopatkin alone enters into a battle with the bureaucratic bureaucracy and the scientific “mafia” tied with circular guarantee. In the end, after the dramatic events described excitingly, as if in adventure prose, after persecution, losses, even a prison, the inventor still pierces the wall of formalism and Kazenchina. The Book of Dudintsev is a rare novel in world literature about creativity, about the relationship of a creative person with the world, about the right of the creator to original people.

Lopatkin is, if you want, Soviet Martin Eden. A strong man, purposeful, covered by fertile creative burning. The light of the bright, inspired personality of Lopatkin is so attractive that during the novel not only attracts many supporters to him, but also lights the fire of love in female hearts. Lopatkin is a hero who wants to imitate, who wants to be like on his overseas double.

But the Soviet hero, unlike Eden, does not fight for personal well -being, but for the triumph of his craft, which has universally valid value. The antipodes of the creators of the Lopatkins in the novel were bred not only by bureaucrats and appropriate, but also in an inert, philistine environment, philistinism. In the book, the unpleasant remarks of Lopatkin and his fellow on the invention of Professor Busko addressed people without a high goal and great aspirations, “spawn” with “primary” psychology are scattered.

The creators who see further, because they look at life from above, as if “from the second floor”, are opposed by the townsfolk. Their services of the already made discoveries! Please - pay three hundred rubles and get a pavement. In an elegant case. Five rubles - and here you have a record, cliffs! On both sides! To open a new one? Nothing. In contrast to the “primary workers” Lopatkin and other creators are not alive with bread.

This is their motto. The ideological core of the novel is the dialogue of inventors about communism. A philistine attached to things can expect one from communism: “That's where I eat! How to link it with a motto? How to link with the car? When I recognized the meaning of this machine and realized that it was needed and that I would have to tighten the strap on the belly for the sake of it ...

I did not hesitate for a second, I happily dived into this pool! Here I immediately realized that communism is not a building invented by philosophers, but a force that has existed for a very long time and which gradually prepares personnel for a future society. She has already entered me! How did I feel it? And here. Look, I have never worked like that in my life as now - I work according to my ability!

I don’t look into the forest like a bear. I save time not for anything, but for work! Now about the need. I can now enter the plant, earn two thousand and buy a mountain of lard. In the palm of the thickness. Or make an appointment in the queue for the purchase of a car. I will put money on a savings bank. The bill will grow, and I will earn everything, earn!

But I'm completely different! I have other needs, I do not need anything. I do not want such happiness as in the cinema: food, food, apartment, bedroom, lace ... That is, of course, I do not refuse. But, having one thing, I will not be happy. And if I bring the case to the end, but I will not have the bedrooms, I will still be happy! What kind of communism is it if you should give up a matter of dear to your heart in order to earn money?

But I would need him now. Not in order to receive, but so that I can give freely! The philistine values ​​have become fundamental in the current world, and the acquisition of material wealth is an revered and almost the main occupation, an ideological and everyday program leading a social idea. But labor is now perceived by many as a joyless thing, God's punishment, as a heavy and humiliating need to work hard into a rich uncle.

And therefore, now it is even more difficult for creative people to pave the way for their talents, to follow the ideals of enthusiastic service to society. That wall, the system of lies, which was erected in front of Lopatkin, the dignitaries and the scorchists, managed to break through, because there was no truth behind them, they were dressed under the Soviet regime, but they were not it.

Today the system is different. The bourgeois, a hapug, a predator does not need to hide his instincts, carnivorous inclinations, raking hands.Creativity in our current reality can be in demand only to the extent that it is useful to the "owners of life." That is why a scientist, artist, writer is forced to produce and maintain values ​​often dubious, purely “primary”.

Or doom yourself to creative inaction, silence. More than half a century ago, Dudinsev stated the lips of his exalted hero that people need communism as a condition for a full -fledged, creative work, without which a happy life is impossible. It is not necessary to take, but to give it without interference. Communism, according to the writer, is a force that gradually prepares personnel for the future society.

I would like to believe that this underlying work is going on today.