There are books that are read to the last page and closed - and forgotten. And movies that are forgotten, it is necessary to titers. But this autobiography, written by Paul Sanaeva (stepson Rolan Bykov), and the film based on the book, you will remember for a long time. Inside the struggles so many different feelings - pity to hatred and impotence.
But the book is about love. Oh great and heartbreaking love that holds and repels, rescues and suffocating, like a heavy smell of rancid old kitchen, which turned out to be all the story characters. And the story itself to close himself the protagonist - a 9-year-old Sasha Savelyev, who became a "bone of contention" in the family.
"My name is Sasha Saveliev. I'm in the second grade and lived with his grandparents. Mom traded me for a dwarf-bloodsucker and grandmother hung on the neck heavy krestyagoy. So I was four years old and hanging. "
Already from the first sentence of autobiographical stories it becomes clear that the relationship between the grandmother and the mother of Sasha, to put it mildly, does not add up. Grandma did not mince words makes it clear that it condemns "dissolute" daughter, which found a new husband.
And this condemnation and hatred flow grandmother, which in the film played by a great actress Svetlana Kryuchkov, poured, small and fragile Sasha, who despite the old wives' nagging, threats and not very flattering parting, love and grandmother, and mother.
"Gitselov damn Tatar hated! - cried the grandmother, militant brandishing a reflector and clapping his hand on the other hand a steaming yubke.- Damn you heaven, God, the earth, birds, fish, people, seas, air! - It was a favorite grandmother proklyate.- That on your head some misfortune rained! I hope you except retaliation, I did not see anything! "
Cruel "love" to the only grandson longer does seem like hatred stems from desire to be obedient and meek living doll, which can take care of, to heal, to teach and punish. And the name of the novel "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" - is asked to Sasha, because the boy thinks his endless sores lead to early death, and for skirting it will be good ...
Do grandson grandmother loves? She takes care of him. And this "selfless" caring gives her a sense of self-worth and helps sharper revel in their own "suffering" that cause her deceitful, callous and ungrateful people surrounding her. And grandchildren as well.
"I am sure there will be people who will say:" There is no grandmother to shout and swear! It does not happen! Maybe she scolded, but not as much and often. " Believe me, even if it seems unlikely, the grandmother scolded exactly as I wrote. Let her curses seem excessive, even if superfluous, but I heard them as heard every day and almost every hour. "
Yes, this book of memoirs, autobiography and the cry of the soul of Paul Sanaeva, n o not think that the book consists entirely of a number of old wives' invectives. The author has created a wonderful story that tells us about his childhood and love the little child's heart, which gets all the love.
And especially - to my mother that my grandmother taught to hate, but her efforts were in vain, because Sasha secretly dreams to mom came and finally took him to her. Especially this dream Sasha on his birthday on the 28th, when my mother would come necessarily. Around this fateful day and develop major events ...
Do you read a story or watch a film, one wonders eternal question: who is to blame? But the answer is no...
Is this grandma, burying his dreams of becoming an actress and went from Kiev, from a loving father, a cramped little room in Moscow? She lost her first child and spent all his life in the nursing forever ailing daughter. Yes, she tormented everyone around scandals, tantrums, but I understand why it has become so.
Is Sasha's grandfather blame? Anyone who has worked all his life on the family, carried into the house every penny and was unable to leave his wife, even after the most brutal insults her? He is sitting into the night from a friend, but after a phone call home in a hurry, taking "candy for the old woman." Love? Yes, the germination of each other back.
Or maybe blame - old daughter, Sasha's mom? It falls under the influence of parents, and the like so far, even as an adult woman and a mother, not to able to make decisions and live their lives - to break the "umbilical cord" for which she was very harshly pulled parents…
It's clear that in no way to blame for little Sasha, who is torn between his grandmother, grandfather and mother. He is counting the days and hours before the arrival of my mother, and he was alone with her grandmother, she says she loves only her and laughing at her mother's actions, which mocks my grandmother.
No culprits in this story. There is a loving, suffering and miserable, so the story turned out at the same time sad and cheerful, child and adult, simple and hard to understand. And, of course, worthy of reading.
