The biography of the life of Chukovsky

Korney Chukovsky brief biography of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky Name at birth-Nikolai Emanuilovich Korneychukov, March 31, St. Petersburg-October 28, Moscow-children's poet, writer, memoirist, critic, linguist, translator and literary critic. Chukovsky’s parents lived together in St. Petersburg for three years, they had the eldest daughter Maria Marusia.

Soon after the birth of a second child, Nicholas, his father left his illegal family and married "the woman of his circle"; Chukovsky’s mother, a peasant from the Poltava province, was forced to move to Odessa. Chukovsky spent his childhood in Odessa and Nikolaev. For some time, the future writer studied at the Odessa gymnasium. Chukovsky failed to finish the gymnasium: he was expelled due to low origin.

These events were described in the autobiographical story “Silver Coat of Arms”, where the injustice and social unequal of the Society of Sunset of the Russian Empire, which he had to encounter in childhood, was sincerely shown. Chukovsky wrote the first article in Odessa News in the year, and B - was sent by a correspondent from this newspaper to London, where he continued his self -education in the library of the British Museum, studied English and was forever carried away by English literature.

Before the revolution, Chukovsky printed critical articles about modern literature in newspapers and magazines, and also issued several critical collections: “From Chekhov to the present day”, “Critical stories”, “Book of modern writers”, “Faces and masks” and books: “Leonid Andreev Bolshaya and Small”, “NAT Pinkerton and modern literature”. In the year, he wrote his first fairy tale for children Crocodile.

Chukovsky was carried away by the poetry of the American poet Walt Whitman and he, starting from the year, published several collections of translations of his poems. In the year, he translated the tales of R. after the revolution, the direction of the literary activity of Chukovsky began to change. At the turn of the X, he, together with E. Zamyatin, led the Anglo-American department in the Gorky College "World Literature".

Translations of English authors took a noticeable place in his work. Henry “Kings and cabbage”, stories, retold “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by E. Raspe, “Robinson Crusoe” D. Chukovsky acted not only as a translator, but also as a theorist of the artistic translation, the book “High Art”, which withstood several publications. Chukovsky - historian and researcher of N.'s work, owns the books “Stories about Nekrasov” and “Nekrasov’s skill” he published dozens of articles about Nekrasov, hundreds of Nekrasov lines prohibited by censorship were found.

In his critical works, Chukovsky always went from thought about the language of the writer. At the end of the x, he took part in the discussion about the language and wrote the book “Living as Life”, in which he acted as a linguist. Protecting a living language from the dominance of bureaucratic revolutions of speech, he declared the "Chancellery" the main disease of the modern Russian language.

With his light hand, this word entered the Russian language. A large place in the literary heritage of Chukovsky is occupied by his memories of I. Repin, M. Gorky, V. Korolenko and many. Memories were written on the basis of diaries that Chukovsky led throughout his life. The handwritten almanac “Chukokkala”, which contains autographs, drawings, jokes of writers and artists, was also a great help for memory.

Chukovsky gained the greatest fame as a children's poet. Chukovsky summarized his observations over the psyche of small children, about how they master their native language, in his famous book “From two to Five”, which stood 21 edition during his lifetime. Criticism noted that in literature you can count at least six Chukovsky. This is Chukovsky - critic, translator, children's poet, literature historian, linguist, memoirist.

His books are translated into many foreign languages ​​from Japan to the USA. Hundreds of articles in our and foreign press were written about the root of Chukovsky. In the year, Oxford University awarded Korney to the Chukovsky degree of Doctor of Literature Honoris Causa, in the same year he was awarded the Lenin Prize. Korney Chukovsky.