What a stranger. All about Dunno
There live short people - tiny people, each of which is the size of a small cucumber. They differ by gender: representatives of the male population are called babies, and representatives of the female population are called babies. It is noteworthy that the short ones lived separately by gender: in some houses only babies lived, in others - only babies.
Some of the babies and toddlers have nicknames related to their occupation (mechanics Vintik and Shpuntik, doctors Pilyulkin (Flower City) and Medunitsa (Green City), poets Tsvetik (Flower City) and Samotsvetik (Green City), artist Tube, musician Guslya and so on) or to character traits (Toropyzhka, Avoska, Neboska, fat little Donut and others). In addition, the poet from the Flower City, Pudik, even took the pseudonym “Tsvetik” for himself.
For the short ones, there is no concept of age (although in the third book, “Dunno on the Moon,” Nosov did introduce elderly characters), and they have no parents (however, Siropchik has something similar to a middle name - Sakharin Sakharynych Siropchik, and Dunno in the second book “Dunno in Sunny City”, when registering at the hotel, signed in the book for guests as “automobile traveler Neznam” Neznamovich Neznaykin").
It remains a mystery where exactly the heroes of all fairy tale novels came from, and what role their division into two sexes played in this. Only once - in the episode of the quarrel between Dunno and Knopochka at the end of the book “Dunno in Sunny City” - the author hints that fairy-tale people also know the concept of love. At the same time, in the first book it is mentioned that Avoska and Neboska are brothers, and therefore, family relationships between the shorties can still exist.
From little Zainka’s phrase “You were lying as if dead,” said to Dunno, or from her whispers with Squirrel “Dead?” - “No, it seems alive” about him, it follows that death in the country of short people can also exist. Also in “Dunno on the Moon” it is reported that several policemen died while chasing robbers.
The short ones have an idea that other countries exist, as well as what names their residents can bear and what they can look like: in any case, Pachkula Pestrenky, when registering at the Solnechnogorod hotel, signed in the book for guests as a “foreigner” Pachkuale Pestrini,” Dunno at the very beginning of the same book mentions French, and a little later he says: “We shorties are very small and cannot take in big things with our small eyes.”
Also in the second book, a measure of the length of a nail is mentioned, equal to 1 1/4 cm, and it is said that a height of almost 9 1/2 nails = 11 7/8 cm is quite large for short people. Therefore, most of them are probably somewhere around 8 nails = 10 cm tall.
A short child named Dunno constantly introduced an element of chaos into the relatively quiet and measured life of the city. Either he will scare everyone to death with a story about a piece torn off from the Sun, ready to crush their city, or he will take on things that he does not know how to do, which causes the displeasure of others, and sometimes danger to his own health and life. Being quite lazy and ignorant, Dunno cannot and does not want to achieve professionalism in any field, which leads to unpleasant consequences for him and those around him. At the same time, Dunno, how main character, essentially changes the way of life and entire plots of life in cities, and later the entire Moon. In addition, his inventions never let anyone get bored, and he himself is a very kind little guy.
Plot
The first five chapters are independent stories in which Dunno gets into various stories due to his frivolity and inattention (learning to draw portraits, write poetry, play the musical instruments and so on), but every time everything ends unsuccessfully for him. The continuous cross-cutting plot begins from the sixth chapter. One day, a kid named Znayka, who lives in the same house as Dunno, came up with the idea of making a hot air balloon and flying around on it with the whole house, in which 16 kids live. After a long construction of the ball, during which Dunno managed to quarrel with his, probably, only friend Gunka (the quarrel was due to the fact that Gunka made friends with the kids), the little ones finally set off to travel.
After a short trip in a balloon due to technical difficulties (the air in the balloon shell has cooled), Znayka decides to leave the balloon by jumping out with a parachute. However, due to the confusion, which was caused partly by Toropyzhka’s carelessness, partly by Dunno’s statement that no one needs to jump anymore, since the ball flew up again (having lost Znayka’s weight), time was lost. As a result, Znayka, having jumped out, is left alone, and the rest of the kids continue their journey on the ball, which soon falls on Green City. When they fall, most get off with minor bruises (the only exception is Pulka, who sprained his leg). Dunno, clinging to the basket, is separated from the rest of the kids and is first found by the little ones who live in the Green City, where, as it turns out, only little kids live.
Dunno is lucky, because, being found first, he ends up in the house of Sineglazka and Snezhinka, while the rest of the kids end up in a hospital, where the strict doctor Medunitsa, guided by the stereotype that all kids are hooligans and fighters, actually keeps travelers imprisoned, despite that no one except Pulka has any injuries. Thanks to a successful coincidence of circumstances, skillful manipulation and political apathy of the majority of kids, Dunno manages to completely usurp power over them. The kids see him as a hero who invented and designed a hot air balloon, a poet, artist, musician, and so on, who taught all the other kids their crafts and skills. The rest of the kids support this lie. In the Green City and its surroundings, Dunno experiences many adventures:
- gradual release of children from the hospital;
- Vintik and Shpuntik’s trip to the city of Zmeevka, where local kids live, and meeting interesting personalities there (the mechanic Bublik, the inventor Shurupchik, the writer Smekaylo, who did not write a single book);
- drawing portraits of babies with a tube;
- car repair with Vintik, Shpuntik and Bublik;
- mechanized fruit harvesting;
- Grumpy and Doctor Pilyulkin's escape from the hospital;
- Pulka treatment;
- and, finally, preparations for the ball in honor of the release of all the kids.
After long adventures, Znayka arrives in Green City, who, as it turned out, decided to find the kids who had flown away. As a result of this meeting, Dunno is exposed as a deceiver and becomes despised by all the kids and little ones. However, he is soon forgiven, and he takes part in the ball, which unexpectedly turns out to be a farewell party: after performing songs written by the poet Tsvetik from Flower City, the kids (especially Grumpy and Dunno) suddenly began to miss their own hometown and the friends left there and decided to return.
After Dunno returns, he makes peace with Gunka and begins to make friends with the kids, especially with Button. He also begins to engage in self-education, thanks to which in the second part of the trilogy he shows a very great interest in chess, while Knopochka and Pestrenky show complete indifference to them, and in the third part - to the internal structure of a space rocket. In addition, thanks to Znayka’s interest in the Green City, some changes and improvements are taking place in the Flower City, such as the construction of fountains, a bridge across the Cucumber River and a water pipeline, and the growing of watermelons.
Characters
- Dunno- the main character of the book. This short guy is quite noticeable, and the main detail of his appearance is bright yellow trousers and a wide-brimmed hat. He is lazy, cunning, not very polite, boastful, but very smart and quick-witted; can command. Despite his shortcomings, Dunno is funny and sometimes popular. His best friend is Gunka.
- Znayka- a very smart and intelligent little guy who deserves respect. Firm, decisive, balanced and unflappable. He very often engages in scientific research and reads scientific and educational books that lie anywhere in his room. However, in the end, Znayka decides to make a bookcase. Usually appears in a black suit and glasses. Doesn't like it when Dunno does anything stupid. He led the trip in a hot air balloon, but when he jumped with a parachute, his “position” was taken by Dunno. But soon Znayka found comrades in the Green City.
- Sineglazka- a serious and sensible little girl, Dunno’s friend. Lives in Green City. She has dark hair, blue eyes and a strong character. Most often she is depicted in a blue dress and her hair braided. After the fall of the balloon, she took Dunno to her place for care. During the adventures of the shorties in the Green City, Dunno and Sineglazka managed to become friends, and before leaving the city, Dunno promised to write her a letter.
History of the concept
In 1952, going with a delegation of Soviet writers to Minsk for the anniversary of Yakub Kolas, Nosov talked the whole night long with the young Ukrainian writer Bogdan Chaly, then editor of a Ukrainian magazine "Periwinkle". It was to him that Nosov told about the idea of “Dunno,” which was born under the impression of a children’s fairy tale he read in childhood by Anna Khvolson "Kingdom of the Little Ones"(1889), which in turn was based on the comics of the poet Palmer Cox (after the Revolution, Khvolson’s books were not republished). The name of the main character was also taken from the fairy tale Khvolson (at the same time, Khvolson Dunno is a purely secondary character). Chaly, who himself was known, in particular, as the author of a book of poetry "The Adventures of Periwinkle and Chamomile", literally fell in love with the image of the charming short man and suggested immediately, as soon as the first chapters of the work appeared, without even waiting for its completion, to publish them in his magazine.
IN "Bravinok", which was published in two languages at once, the fairy tale was published immediately in Russian and Ukrainian (translated by Fyodor Makivchuk) under the title "The Adventures of Dunno and His Comrades". The first illustrators of the fairy tale were Kira and Viktor Grigoriev. The fairy tale was published in a separate edition in Russian in 1954 by the Detgiz publishing house under the title "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" with illustrations by Alexey Laptev, who was then the first illustrator of the sequel "Dunno in Sunny City". It was Laptev who created the familiar appearance of Dunno, which other artists began to use after that.
see also
Notes
Literature
- Neyolov E. M. From literary fairy tale to science fiction (fairy-tale trilogy by N. Nosov “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends”)// Scientist. zap. PetrSU / resp. ed. I. P. Lupanova and others - Petrozavodsk, 1972. - T. 18, issue. 3: Literature and Society. - pp. 148-156. - (Philological sciences).
- Zagidullina M.V. The time of the bells, or “The Inspector General” in “Dunno”// Funny men: Cultural heroes of Soviet childhood / Kukulin I. V., Lipovetsky M. N., Mayofis M. L. - M.: NLO, 2008. - P. 205-224. - 556 s. - (Scientific supplement. Issue LXXIV). - 1500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-86793-642-6.
Links
- A. B. Khvolson - The Kingdom of Little Ones. The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men
- Filmstrip “Air travel of Dunno and his comrades”, 1957, black and white
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Do you know who invented Dunno? I am sure that you will answer like this: well, of course, the wonderful Russian writer Nikolai Nosov!
After all, Dunno is one of the shorties living in the Flower City!
Well, that's what you answered? If yes, then you made a mistake.
Do you know why? Because in fact, it was invented by the Canadian writer and artist Palmer Cox back in the mid-19th century, in whose comics this hero first appeared.
This story began when the Russian writer Anna Khvolson made a free translation of the comics by the Canadian writer Palmer Cox about the life of the so-called little elves, “The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men.” And in 1951, the Soviet writer Nikolai Nosov created the first book about the adventures of short people who looked like forest men. Nosov awarded the main character the name of one of Khvolson’s characters, Dunno, and some of Murzilka’s character traits.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these tales were very popular. Their heroes were little elves (they were also called “brownies”), forest men with funny names Murzilka, Chumilka-Vedun, Hare Lip, Dedko-Borodach and others who traveled around the world. Murzilka himself, according to the plot of the fairy tale, constantly found himself in some kind of funny stories.
But after the 1917 revolution, the book was no longer published, and everyone forgot about this hero. Almost forgotten, because Murzilka appeared again in 1924. He looked then, however, completely different - the boy turned into a red mongrel dog. His friends also changed - now they were pioneers, Octobrists, as well as their parents.
The children's magazine of the same name told about the adventures of the new Murzilka, drawings for which were made by artist Konstantin Rotov.
Soon other characters began to appear in this magazine - the mischievous aunt Yabeda-Koryabeda, the talking cat Shunka, Soroka-Balabolka, Sportlendik and Ladybug...
All these characters became the “leaders” of the main sections of the magazine - funny and entertaining stories, curiosity questions, a sports page, stories about nature.
The fabulous Murzilka that we now know appeared only in July 1937 - it was invented and painted by the artist Aminadav Kanevsky.
But let's return to the story of Dunno.
They say that Nikolai Nosov first encountered the books of Anna Khvolson in the early 50s.
The writer wanted to retell these tales in his own way. This is how the Flower Country was born, as well as its inhabitants - Dunno and his friends.
From Nosov’s memoirs we can learn that the idea of creating “Dunno” was prompted by Anna Khvolson’s book “The Kingdom of Little Ones. The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men" 1883 based on American comic books by Palmer Cox. (We won’t dig deeper, because we’ll get bogged down in Scandinavian mythology.) Let’s note right away that in Khvolson’s “Little Ones” there are many colorful characters, but few literary ideas. This book was subsequently reprinted several times ( last time in 1996). Nosov came up with his shorties because he had a lot of ideas, but not enough heroes.
“I was free to give these characters those character traits that were required by the plan. These little ones, whom I called shorties, were convenient in that I could not develop or deepen their characters, loading the narrative with unnecessary details, but provide them with separate features, reflecting one side of their character, which was quite consistent with their microscopicity and at the same time it sharpened, generalized the image, typified it.” — From a letter from N. N. Nosov to Yu. S. Pukhov.
In essence, Nosov has created a country, no, a whole planet of Lilliputians, in which the appearance of some Gulliver is categorically not envisaged, since large, normal people do not exist there in principle. The inhabitants of the country are called shorties; they are the size of a small cucumber. By gender, shorties are divided into babies and toddlers. Among the short ones there are wise bearded wizards, teaching professors and uncouth youths like Dunno. That is, these are, in fact, tiny adults with the character traits of a child.
The history of the creation of the trilogy about Dunno is extremely poor in facts. Its origins lie in the pre-revolutionary fairy tales of A. Khvolson about little forest men, well known to Nosov’s generation. It is in these simple educational stories about elves traveling around the world that we first meet a character named Dunno. However, from him the Nosovsky hero received only a name, but in character the Soviet Dunno strongly resembles another hero Khvolson - the braggart, liar and dandy Murzilka. Only if Nosov’s Dunno “wore a bright blue hat, yellow, canary-colored trousers and an orange shirt with a green tie,” then Murzilka was a dandy of his era - “wore a long coat or tailcoat, a tall black hat, boots with narrow toes, a cane and a glass in the eye." As a result, everything became completely confused - Dunno began to look like Murzilka, and Murzilka over time turned into positive hero children's magazine, keeping only the name from the original source.
Probably, few people know that stories about the short people of the Flower City first began to be published in the Ukrainian children's magazine “Barvinok” in 1953, after Nosov met the editor Bogdan Chaly.
“We managed to publish several issues when Stalin died. I remember that a mourning portrait of the leader was printed on the cover of the magazine. Surprisingly, chapters of a funny fairy tale about Dunno appeared in the next issue. In 1954, the novel was published as a separate book with illustrations by the wonderful artist Alexei Laptev.”
(Igor Nosov, grandson of the writer)
As a result, Nosov’s cycle about shorties consisted of two stories (“The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” 1954, “Dunno in the Sunny City” 1958), one novel (“Dunno on the Moon”, 1964) and a related short tale about Vintik, Shpuntik and the vacuum cleaner (in it Dunno - minor character, who became famous only for the famous phrase that “why undress before going to bed if you get dressed again in the morning”).
One gets the feeling that when he started writing stories about Dunno, the author himself had no idea what short, witty stories about a narrow-minded and curious kid trying to master a wide variety of professions “on the fly” would develop into. The author noted that he copied many of the features of his hero while observing his little son, Petya. But it seems to me that Nikolai Nosov himself, who loved to wear wide-brimmed hats, was always eager for any endeavors and prone to fantasizing, also peeked out slyly from under the guise of Dunno.
- “So, because of a rhyme, you will invent all sorts of lies about me? - Znayka boiled.
“Of course,” answered Dunno. - Why should I make up the truth? There is no need to create the truth, it already exists.”
The peak of film adaptations of Nosov’s fairy tales, which quickly gained popularity among readers, occurred in the 60s and 70s. But, if the very first of these cartoons “Dunno Learns” and “Vintik and Shpuntik - Merry Masters” (“Soyuzmultfilm”; 1961 and 1960) were didactic in nature. Then a couple of puppet series “Dunno in the Sunny City” and “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” (“Screen”; 1971-1977) sometimes presented Dunno as an unrecognized artist, a misunderstood poet and a romantic dreamer, waiting for wizards and miracles. The children, in addition to philosophy, also wanted adventure. And the adventures, in the end, were not long in coming: to amuse the current child, new animated films appeared - “Dunno on the Moon” (“Russian Gold”; 1997) and “Dunno and Barrabass” (“National Film Center”; 2004 G.).
And Nikolai Nosov himself was born in 1908 into the family of an actor. He spent his childhood in the village of Irpen, not far from Kyiv, where the boy began his studies at the gymnasium.
After 1917, the gymnasium was reorganized into a seven-year school. After finishing it, he worked as a laborer at a concrete plant in Irpen, then at a brick plant in the city of Bucha. During these years I was constantly engaged in self-education. Art attracted him into its beautiful embrace from adolescence. At the age of nineteen he passed the exam at the Kiev Art Institute. In 1929 he transferred to Moscow state institute cinematography and until 1951 worked in the field of cinema: director, producer of animated, scientific, and educational films. During the Great Patriotic War directed military-technical films.
According to Nosov himself, he came to literature by accident: his son was born, and he had to tell him more and more fairy tales, funny stories for him and his preschool friends... “Gradually I realized that writing for children is the best job. It requires a lot of knowledge, and not only literary knowledge, even more about the psychology of children. The main thing is love for them. And respect. I realized when my son was growing up that children need to be treated with the greatest and very warm respect,” said the author of the story “Vitya Maleev at school and at home,” when it was discussed in the creative association of children’s and youth writers of Moscow, and it came out it was published in the already mentioned 1957.
N.N. Nosov’s first story was “Entertainers” (1938). The first thin book was published in 1945. It was called “Knock-knock-knock”. This friendly and friendly knock was heard by both children and publishers: “Detgiz” was published a year later next book- collection of short stories “Steps”.
Knowledge of child psychology and command of accessible and, at the same time, figurative language allowed us to gain lasting recognition among children and adults. Nosov introduced a new hero into children's literature - a naive and sensible, mischievous and inquisitive fidget, obsessed with a thirst for activity and constantly finding himself in unusual, often comical situations.
In 1949-50, the stories “The Cheerful Family” and “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsin” were published and became popular.
The story “Vitya Maleev at School and at Home,” published in 1951 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1952, brought widespread fame to the children’s writer. In 1955, the film “Two Friends” was made based on the story.
And to this day, the trilogy about Dunno is a huge success among young readers - “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” (1953-1954), “Dunno in the Sunny City” (1958), “Dunno on the Moon” (1964-1965).
In 1957, one authoritative international magazine made a calculation - which of the Russian writers are most often translated into other languages. The result was a list in which the third - after M. Gorky and A. Pushkin - was children's writer Nikolay Nosov.
In 1961, the humorous short stories “The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin” were published, where the author ridicules not only children’s shortcomings, but also the vices of adults. Respect for the child's personality - distinguishing feature Nosov's prose. A movie was created based on the short stories.
In 1971, “The Tale of My Friend Igor” was published, written in the form of diary entries from the life of his grandfather and grandson.
Memories of family and childhood are reflected in the fictional memoir story “The Secret at the Bottom of the Well” (1977).
It is impossible not to know Dunno. Even if fate passed you by, not giving you a meeting with the fairy-tale trilogy of Nikolai Nikolayevich Nosov, a hero with that name is probably known at least by hearsay. However, why trust rumors when we are ready to provide very specific and reliable information?
So, Dunno is the most famous shorty of the Flower City. And although many worthy children live there, including the scientist Znayka, the famous mechanic Shpuntik, and the talented musician Guslya, it is the dunce and restless Dunno who is known to everyone in the city.
Firstly, because, having seen it at least once, it is impossible to forget it. His defiantly colorful and bright outfit and non-standard, one might even say aggressive, behavior make him stand out in any crowd.
In addition, he is a known liar, braggart and lazy person.
And although Dunno is far from being an ideal shorty, for some reason it was precisely this incompetent and liar that Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov chose as the main heroes of three their fairy tale novels.
So ask - why? And we will answer - because of charm! Yes! The same charm that makes the short guy irresistibly attractive and gives him the opportunity to win the reader’s heart from the very first minute.
In addition, Dunno is active, curious, open, sociable and not at all devoid of talents.
Judge for yourself, for the first time he picked up brushes and paints, and in one night he painted portraits of all his friends. Well, the fact that he worked more in the genre of cartoons than realistic portraits speaks, in our opinion, only about the uniqueness of his artistic gift.
Or his poetic experiments. After all, literally the day before he still didn’t know what “rhyme” was, but he decided to devote himself literary creativity, and, one might say, he immediately created poetic masterpieces:
Just think, what power of imagination, what expression!
Compare these poetic lines with at least the verses of the poet Tsvetik:
Brilliant, of course, especially the last two lines. But Tsvetik is a professional, while Dunno took only his first steps in the poetic field.
And what a breadth of interests our hero has! As soon as he put aside his brushes and paints, the echoes of his poetic experiments were still in the air, and he was already sitting behind the wheel of the carbonated car that Vintik and Shpuntik had built. And even without really knowing how this car works, Dunno was able to not only start it the first time, but also drive it like a breeze throughout the city. Yes, of course, some city buildings were slightly damaged, some were demolished, and the car itself, having flown off a cliff, drowned in the river, but... And we repeat once again - but! - all the babies and toddlers we met along the way remained alive, and the driver survived! And this is an undoubted achievement.
This is how he is, Dunno, versatile, inquisitive, cheerful and, most importantly, incredibly, even somehow strikingly similar to literally any (not even a fairy-tale, but a real) boy.
Actually, this is, as they say now, the main “trick” of Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov. After all, his Dunno, in essence, is the quintessence of a boy’s character and behavior. Therefore, the hero’s mistakes and blunders, his pranks and misdeeds, his inventions and fantasies are not only easily perceived by little readers, but are perfectly “tried on” to themselves. Moreover, the hero’s “costume” turns out to be just right for any reader, thereby confirming the amazing skill of the cutter.
The main character of Nosov is a dunno
Little Dunno is, without a doubt, N.N. Nosov’s great success. Although, by and large, all the writer’s previous heroes are “dunnos.” Vitya Maleev and Kolya Sinitsyn from the stories, Mishka and Kolya from the stories are boys who still know and can do little, but strive to try, learn and do everything. Most often with very dubious results.
At all, ““ignorance” associated with childish naivety”(S. Sivokon), N.N. Nosov uses and plays masterfully,forcing him to serve in his works (realistic and fairy-tale) as both the main engine of the plot and the main source of the comic. Although now, of course, that’s not entirely what we’re talking about. Let's get back to our hero.
So, N.N. Nosov’s Dunno is a completely natural hero. And yet his appearance seems strange. After all, until the early 1950s, Nosov composed realistic stories and novellas. For one of them - “Vitya Maleev at school and at home” - he even received the Stalin Prize in 1952. And suddenly for some reason - a fairy tale. Strange!
There is nothing strange here.
Something from the history of the creation of “Dunno”
The middle of the 20th century is far from the brightest time for literature in general, and for children’s literature in particular.
Even the story about Vita Maleev, favored by the authorities, was quite often attacked for the fact that the world of schoolchildren in it is depicted as completely divorced from the life of the entire country and, therefore, he deliberately"narrowed and impoverished". Where, the critical articles asked, is the pioneer organization, where is the guiding role of counselors and teachers? And in fact, there was nothing of this in Nosov’s book. Well, what do you tell a writer to do here? Break yourself? Or change direction? Except that in a fairy tale the pioneer organization can be neglected. And a hero, a restless person and a dreamer, he will take root there too.
It’s hard to say when N.N. Nosov first had the idea of writing a fairy tale about the state of shorties. It is only known for certain that in the same 1952, while heading with a delegation of Soviet writers to Minsk for the anniversary of Yakub Kolas, Nosov talked all night long with the young Ukrainian writer Bogdan Chaly (at that time the editor of the magazine “Barvinok”). It was to him that Nosov told about the idea of “Dunno”. They say that Chaly literally fell in love with the image of the charming short man and offered to publish them in his magazine as soon as the first chapters of the work appeared, without even waiting for its completion. The proposal was accepted, and the word was kept. So the fairy tale was first published in the magazine “Periwinkle” in 1953-54. in two languages - Russian and Ukrainian (translated by F. Makivchuk) - under the title “The Adventures of Dunno and His Comrades” with the subtitle “fairy tale-story”.It immediately appeared as a separate publication, already as “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends: A Fairy-Tale Romance” (M.: Detgiz, 1954).
The second part - “Dunno in the Sunny City” - was published in 1958, first in the magazine “Yunost”, and then was published as a book (M.: Detgiz, 1958).
And finally, the third fairy tale novel, “Dunno on the Moon,” was first published in the magazine “Family and School” in 1964-66. A separate publication appeared a year later (M.: Det. lit., 1967).
This is how Dunno received three books by N.N. Nosov for his permanent place of residence, and the writer himself, for providing the hero with such a cozy abode, received the State Prize of the RSFSR named after. N.K. Krupskaya. This joyful event happened in 1969.
Did Dunno have a prototype?
In fact, did Dunno have a prototype?
Was! Or rather, they were. From quite real to quite fabulous.
They say, for example, that Dunno is literally copied from N.N. Nosov’s son, Peter. And his hair was curly and unruly. And by nature he is a restless person. Despite his small stature, Peter played volleyball and basketball well as a child, because he was as bouncy as a ball. So Dunno could have borrowed something from Pyotr Nikolaevich.
Although from his creator, N.N. Nosov himself, the hero also inherited some traits. For example, the short guys have said more than once that Dunno is a master of making things up.
He undoubtedly got this gift from Nikolai Nikolaevich. Or, say, a penchant for wide-brimmed hats. Well, it’s clear that Dunno can’t go anywhere without his hat. But Nosov...
In one of his most successful photographs, he is wearing a chic hat. And it’s immediately clear that he and her are a single and inextricable whole. But take another photo, and the resemblance will be simply striking. On it, little Koki (at the beginning of the last century the name Nikolai was reduced to either “Koka” or “Niki”)the eyes are huge, completely round and clear, just the same eyes with which Dunno looks at us from any page of the Nosov trilogy.
However, according to the writer, the life prototype of Dunno is simply“a child, but not one that can be called by name and surname, but a child in general, with the restless thirst for knowledge inherent in his age and at the same time with restlessness, the inability to keep his attention on one subject for any long time - in general , with all the good inclinations... and shortcomings..."(N.N. Nosov. About himself and his work).
This concerns “life prototypes”. But it turns out that Dunno also had prototypes that were not even life-like.
Dunno - formerly Murzilka and also an elf
Stanislav Rassadin, in a book dedicated to the work of N.N. Nosov, writes that Nikolai Nikolaevich told him about the fairy tale by A. Khvolson, “The Kingdom of Little Ones: The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men,” read in childhood, memories of which prompted him to think about Dunno.
This book was very popular at the turn of the century. Its heroes were little elves with funny names (Murzilka, Chumilka the Sage, Hare Lip, Dedko the Bearded Man), and the basis of the plot was their travels around the world and all kinds of road adventures.
Murzilka and his friends first appeared on the pages of the magazine “Sincere Word” in 1887 in the fairy tale “A boy as big as a finger, a girl as big as a nail.” The author of this tale was the famous writer Anna Borisovna Khvolson (18..-1934), and the illustrations were drawings by the artist Palmer Cox.
The first edition of the book “The Kingdom of Little Ones,” including 27 stories and 182 drawings, was published in 1889, followed by reprints in 1898, 1902 and 1915.
After the revolution of 1917, A.B. Khvolson’s book was never republished, and it was soon forgotten. Therefore, almost no one knew about the relationship between the heroes A.B. Khvolson and N.N. Nosov.
But recently, in the early 1990s, the fairy tale about Murzilka was published again:
Khvolson A.B. The Kingdom of Little Ones: The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men in 27 Stories. - M.: PolyKom, 1991. - 222 p.: ill.
Khvolson A.B. The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Men: In 27 Stories / Artist. V. Kostyleva, M. Goncharov. - Izhevsk: Quest, . - 147 p.: ill.
And it turned out that Murzilka is incredibly similar to Dunno. He is the same braggart, lazy and troublemaker, who, because of his character, constantly gets into various troubles. However, these two heroes also have differences. Murzilka, for example, is a real dandy. A tailcoat or long coat, top hat, boots with narrow toes, a cane and a monocle are indispensable components of his everyday costume. So Dunno’s predilection for defiantly bright colors in clothes would have unpleasantly struck Murzilka’s refined taste.
But this difference is purely external, and as for the essence... It’s much more difficult with this very essence. Although the character of Murzilka or, as his friends call him, “The Empty Head” is quite similar to the character of his literary descendant, Dunno is written out in much more detail and volume. And if Khvolson’s hero is deliberately caricatured and conventional, then Nosov’s is a lively, charming and recognizable boy. Therefore, probably, readers only laugh at the careless and boastful Murzilka, but they often sympathize with Dunno, sincerely pity and love him.
Murzilka Khvolson is static. He doesn't change at all throughout the book. But the character and inner world of Dunno undergo significant changes, which Nosov depicts “thoroughly and very psychologically reliably”(St. Razumnevich). If in the first part Dunno is frivolous and carefree, in the second he is inquisitive and conscientious, in the third he almost approaches the image of a typical positive hero of any adventure novel, he becomes “brave, resourceful, lucky, and sometimes, alas, too sentimental”(I. Vasyuchenko).
True, when conceiving his Dunno, N.N. Nosov did not want to delve into the “psychological jungle” at all. “I was free to give these characters those character traits that were required by the plan. These little ones, whom I called shorties, were convenient in that I could not develop or deepen their characters, loading the narrative with unnecessary details, but provide them with separate features, reflecting one side of their character, which was quite consistent with their microscopicity and at the same time sharpened, generalized the image, typified it"(from a letter from N.N. Nosov to Yu.S. Pukhov). In principle, this idea was brilliantly implemented in relation to all the characters of the fairy-tale trilogy. With the exception of Dunno. He could not help but change, otherwise he would have lost both the internal authenticity of the image and the sympathy of his readers.
But let's return to Murzilka. Why, having “borrowed” the image of the hero from Khvolson, although somewhat transforming it, did Nosov neglect his name? Yes, because in the middle of the 20th century this name was already very “promoted” by a popular children's magazine. And Murzilka himself Through the efforts of the artist A.M. Kanevsky, he turned from a forest elf into a funny shaggy creature in a beret.
By the way, a little more about name transformation. When the magazine was published in 1924, Murzilka was the name given to the dog, a village mongrel. And in the 1950s, cartoons were shown on the movie screens of our country in which a tiny boy reporter (also named Murzilka) from the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda” exposed vices, defeated giants and flew into space.
So Nosov had to look for another name for his hero. And in this he was helped by the same little elves Khvolson, one of whom, Dunno, was Znayka’s brother and his complete antipode. This character took little part in the development of the plot of the pre-revolutionary fairy tale, so in the company of his elf brothers he was completely lost.
By the way, the elves of A.B. Khvolson have very little resemblance to the folklore elves who live in fairy tales and legends of many peoples of the world. To understand to what extent they are dissimilar, we refer the most inquisitive citizens to books that will tell in detail about elves and other representatives of the extremely vast “little people” - gnomes, dwarfs, trolls, miniatures, leprechauns, etc. and so on. By the way, among the fabulous miniature population there are also our homegrown ones. For example, have you heard of scaffolding or pain-bobs? Even a goblin, it turns out, can shrink to the size of a small blade of grass. But we will not bore you with folklore research and will limit ourselves to only a list of popular literature.
A small list of books about small creatures
Appenzeller T. Gnomes / Trans. V. Shartova. - M.: TERRA, 1996. - 144 p.: ill. - (Enchanted World).
Bulychev Kir. Fantastic bestiary. - St. Petersburg: KN, 1995. - 264 p.: ill.
Hare V. Ghosts and spirits. - M.: Egmont Russia, 2002. - 160 p.: ill. - (Secrets of Planet Earth).
Kanevsky A. Monsters and monsters. - M.: Egmont Russia, 2002. - 160 p.: ill. - (Secrets of Planet Earth).
Mythological bestiary: From Alkost to Yagil. - Kaliningrad: Amber Tale, 1999. - 240 pp.: ill.
Fairies and elves. - M.: TERRA, 1996. - 144 p.: ill. - (Enchanted World).
If someone wants to go back to the very origins, then folklore different nations the world will provide anyone with a lot of impressions and finds.
And the Cossack was sent!
As for the elves of Anna Borisovna Khvolson, they are more reminiscent of comic book heroes than their folklore counterparts. And this is quite natural. Have you heard, dear compatriots, that the genealogical roots of our “Russian” Dunno lead not just anywhere, but to the distant United States of America.
A certain S. Chervonny from Kharkov was not too lazy to conduct bibliographic research, the result of which was the following data.
Firstly, the tales about the adventures of Murzilka are not the fruit of A.B. Khvolson’s exquisite imagination, but some kind of essay on a given topic. The theme was originally suggested by the drawings of the American Palmer Cox.
Secondly, this same Palmer Cox (1840-1924), as it turned out, was at the origins of the creation of the first comic books, which began to be published on the last pages American magazines from the second half of the 19th century century. An early example of this genre is a series of drawings by P. Cox “The Brownies”, depicting little people.
Thirdly, from 1887 to 1918, Palmer Cox published more than a dozen comic books about the adventures of tiny heroes. He was also the author of the texts for his drawings.
Finally, fourthly, the Russian Publishing Partnership M.O. Wolf (by the way, supplier of His Imperial Majesty)“taking advantage of Cox’s foreign drawings, he instructed A. Khvolson(I wonder why at the beginning of the last century, and the review, the lines from which we quote, appeared in the sixth issue of the “Pedagogical Collection” for 1900, the lady’s surname was declined? Disorder!)compose a text for them, published both in the journal “Dushevnoe Slovo”, and then published them as a separate publication.”
That's it!
Perhaps for some, these facts will be a great shock and disappointment - our supposed Dunno, like Pinocchio and the Wizard of the Emerald City, is in fact not even ours at all. We believe that this is just another confirmation of our cherished idea that everything is “more than all”, and ideas and images travel freely around the world, connecting humanity into a single whole.
And more about prototypes
As for literary prototypes, Dunno has another one, already ours, indigenous, Russian. For clarity, let’s immediately quote. No, two quotes. To compare.
First:
“- Tell me, please, who came up with the idea of flying in a hot air balloon?
“It’s me,” answered Dunno...
...Our kids have been asking me for a long time to come up with something: “Think of something, brother, come up with something.” I say: “Brothers, I’m already tired of inventing things. Come up with it yourself." They say: “Where are we going?” We are stupid, and you are smart. What does it cost you? Come up with it!” “Okay,” I say. - What should I do with you? I'll figure it out." And I began to think...
I thought for three days and three nights, and what would you think? I figured it out! “Here, I say, brothers: you will have a ball!” And he made a ball. About me, the poet Tsvetik... we have such a poet... he wrote poems: “Our Dunno came up with the ball...” Or not: “Our Dunno came up with the ball...” Or not: “Our Dunno came up with the ball...” No, I forgot! You know, they write a lot of poems about me, you can’t remember them all.”(N.N. Nosov. The Adventures of Dunno and his friends. Chapter XIII. Conversation at the table).
Second:
« Anna Andreevna. Is that how you write? How pleasant this must be for a writer! Is it true that you also publish them in magazines?
Khlestakov. Yes, I also publish them in magazines. However, there are many of my works. The Marriage of Figaro, Robert the Devil, Norma. I don’t even remember the names. And it all happened by chance: I didn’t want to write, but the theater management said: “Please, brother, write something.” I think to myself: “If you please, brother!” And then in one evening, it seems, he wrote everything, astonishing everyone. I have an extraordinary lightness in my thoughts...”(N.V. Gogol. The Inspector General. Act III. Phenomenon VI).
It’s a pity to interrupt such an intoxicating dialogue, but it has to be done. After all, even these lines are quite enough to reveal the undoubted similarities between the two heroes. It’s probably not worth dwelling on the boyish boastfulness and carelessness of Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov and Dunno’s “Khlestakovism” - everything is more than obvious. By the way, N.V. Gogol was N.N. Nosov’s favorite writer, and in Nosov’s works there are often reminiscences and associations that make one remember the great Russian classic of the 19th century.
And more about literary relatives
But Dunno and his short friends have another very numerous relatives - “little people”: Thumb Thumb by C. Perrault, Thumbelina by H. C. Andersen, Pinocchio by C. Collodi and his twin brother Pinocchio by A. N. Tolstoy ... In principle, this series can go on and on. But it’s better to look at the “Parade of Heroes” section on our website and find a whole list of books about these little people. However, we are also not going to talk about their family relationships. Then our discussions would drag on for a long time, and the result would be reduced to a minimum. And it is so clear that all these literary kids arose for one single reason - the little reader needs a little hero with whom he could identify himself.
Actually, that's all we wanted to say about prototypes. But, since we are talking about the tiny sizes of our heroes, it’s probably worth clarifying them.
How tall was Dunno?
In the very first lines of the first book of the trilogy we read:“In one fairy-tale city there lived short people. They were called shorties because they were very small. Each short one was the size of a small cucumber.”
But “cucumber” is still too vague a definition. For specifics, we will turn to the third fairy tale novel by N.N. Nosov, “Dunno on the Moon.” And in the ninth chapter of the above-mentioned novel we will find comprehensive information.
Your height, expressed in standard measurement units, is seventy-two. So you are short and of average height...(let us note in parentheses that Dunno’s measurement takes place at the police station, where he ended up almost immediately upon his arrival in the state of the lunar shorties)We measure the circumference of your head... Like this...
Thirty units. We see, therefore, that you have a large head... We measure your nose and see that it is only two and a half units long, that is, short.”
Based on the “standard” of lunar units, readers can therefore find out that Dunno’s height is 72 mm (like a small, but not small cucumber), his nose is only 2.5 mm, but his head circumference is as much as 30 mm! This is how many thoughts can fit in such a cranium!
Now let’s move on from general measuring parameters to appearance our hero.
Who gave Dunno a visual image?
If you ask the question “who?” so directly, you can get an equally direct answer - Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev (1905-1965). It was Dunno who first allowed him to draw himself. And the portrait turned out to be so similar to the original that all subsequent “portrait painters” only repeated and played up the image created by A.M. Laptev.
The pen and watercolor drawings of A.M. Laptev not only decorated the first two parts of the Nosov trilogy, they, as Yuri Olesha accurately noted in his review of “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends,” emphasized“its lightness, its joyful, summer, we would say, field flavor”. In the same review, the line from which we just quoted, Yu. Olesha noted that the whole book resembles a round dance:“a whole round dance of adventures, jokes, inventions”. This association arose among the reviewer, no doubt, thanks to the illustrations of A.M. Laptev. They are multi-figured and incredibly mobile. Images are permanent“change places, configuration, cut into the text, cross it diagonally”(L. Kudryavtseva), not allowing our eyes to take their eyes off the magnificent, bright, varied round dance of funny and cute shorties.Illustrations by Alexey Mikhailovich“tender, lyrical, fragile... with touching warmth and at the same time captivating “seriousness”, genuineness”(A. Lavrov) they draw in detail, step by step, the world of little people. And although these creatures in Laptev resemble children (they are dressed like children, they have childish habits),“but not children, not a parody, not a caricature of a child, and not dolls, but fairy-tale people”(L. Kudryavtseva).
This is how professionals spoke about A.M. Laptev’s illustrations and the images he created. We, as amateurs, allow ourselves to note the following. In our opinion, the planet of short people by N.N. Nosov is a model of children’s ideas about the adult world, where any activity and work is just a game, where there are no questions of birth and death, where there is no division into adults and children, where there are just people, seen from the perspective and eyes of a child. It seems to us that A.M. Laptev incredibly accurately managed to convey this view in his illustrations. His drawings are even somewhat reminiscent of children's drawings. Perhaps due to its ingenuity.
The third and last part of the Nosov trilogy was illustrated by Genrikh Oskarovich Valk (1918-1998). Valk is one of the earliest illustrators of N.N. Nosov. The writer's first book - the collection "Knock-Knock-Knock" - was published in 1945 with drawings by Heinrich Valk, light, relaxed, carrying a barely noticeable shade of magazine humor. For the then young cartoonist, this collection became the first children's book in his professional career."So it began,- wrote G.O. Valk himself, -our long-term partnership with Nikolai Nikolaevich". And he continued: “I was lucky enough to illustrate almost all of his stories, the story “Vitya Maleev at school and at home” and his famous “Dunno on the Moon.”
Heinrich Valk preserved the Laptev image of Dunno and finally canonized him.
The rest of the characters, according to Nosov’s (quite satirical) narrative,“the artist gave the features grotesque, and sometimes caricature”(L. Kudryavtseva).
None of the subsequent illustrators of the fairy-tale trilogy can yet compete with these recognized masters. Although fans of Dunno favorably view modern publications with drawings by Evg. Kozlov (stylized as Laptev) and A. Borisenko (stylized as Valk).
The publication of the trilogy at the end of the 1970s with drawings by A. Borisov, alas, did not find ardent adherents.
How Dunno became a popular brand
Having acquired his visual image through the efforts of artists, Dunno boldly stepped beyond the pages of his native book. All those half a century that have passed since the appearance of N.N. Nosov’s fairy tale, Dunno could be found anywhere. In cartoons (go here, if you want to specify which ones) and on theater stages, on the stage and in children's periodicals, on radio and television, at carnivals (by the way, the Dunno costume is a win-win and very inexpensive option) and quizzes. There are Dunno toys, Dunno candies and all sorts of other stuff. Even in exotic Japan, the famous confectioner Matsuo Kokado borrowed the name and image of the Nosovsky hero for his delicious products. And at home...Rumor has it that a well-known art company led by Sergei Kuryokhin (Africa, Timur Novikov, etc.) chose in those memorable years the image of Dunno as the only hero not borrowed from foreigners as its graphic symbol (that’s how they missed it!). True, we were never able to verify this information, but we also could not refuse it - it was too good. All that remains is to direct the most corrosive ones to B. Karlov’s article, where we got it from (see bibliography).
So, over the past fifty years, Dunno has become a real brand that is used by everyone who is not too lazy. This is probably why N.N. Nosov’s grandson Igor Petrovich decided to take the family business into his own hands.
And now he is closely monitoring the “freeloaders” and, most importantly, working on creating all kinds of continuations of his grandfather’s fairy tale. Books by I.P. Nosov are printed and sold out, but so as not to be reproached for their advertising or anti-advertising, we will limit ourselves to just stating this fact.
About cartoons
Cartoons about Dunno have been shown on the screens of our country since the early 1960s. Recently a “new generation” cartoon appeared - a very high-quality international product “Dunno on the Moon”. Director A. Lyutkevich not only saw an ideal animated story in N.N. Nosov’s novel and G.O. Valk’s illustrations, but also brought it to screen life.
And now at the Tsentrnauchfilm studio they are filming a full-length animated film “Dunno and Barrabas”, which will involve both the Nosovsky hero and the heroes of the books by Anna Khvolson and Palmer Cox.
Children and philosophers suffer from Dunno syndrome
Really, it would be funny, like everything connected with the cheerful Nosov hero, if “Dunno syndrome” was not a professional term used in pediatric practice. The scientific name for the disease is impaired attention syndrome. It is he who is often the cause of “bad” behavior in children. The life of such children and their parents in most cases becomes very difficult, since the increased impulsiveness, inattention and hyperactivity of the sick do not fit into traditional patterns of behavior in society. True, although Dunno syndrome is a serious disease, experts say that, fortunately, it can be treated.
However, not only children, but also the greatest philosophers suffer from a kind of Dunno syndrome.
To explain this idea, you will have to look into such depths of history that it will take your breath away. V century BC, Athens.
Someone, wanting to know the answer to the question that tormented him: “Which of the Hellenes is the wisest?”, turned to the Delphic Oracle for clarification. And he received the answer: “Sophocles is wise, Euripides is wiser, and Socrates is wiser than all.” The philosopher, who was given the answer, then uttered the phrase that later became famous: “I know that I know nothing.” That's it, no comments.
They also say that Socrates was a short, stocky man with a huge head and a small snub nose. What a strange coincidence!
Bibliography - a source of information for thought
Begak B. City of the Sun and City of the Moon // Begak B. Children laugh. - M.: Det. lit., 1979. - pp. 140-153.
Begak B. The wanderings continue // Begak B. The truth of fairy tales. - M.: Det. lit., 1989. - pp. 77-88.
Life and work of Nikolai Nosov: Sat. - M.: Det. lit., 1985. - 256 pp.: ill.
A very good collection, well compiled and very diverse. Here are articles by Yu. Olesha, V. Kataev, L. Kassil (what names!) dedicated to N.N. Nosov. Memories of the writer from relatives and friends. Notes from Nikolai Nikolaevich himself about his work. Solid bibliography. We were especially pleased with two materials: the article by L. Kudryavtseva “This child is myself” (about the illustrators of N.N. Nosov’s books) and the memoirs of Heinrich Valk.
Karlov B. “I only know that I don’t know anything,” said Socrates, but he didn’t know Dunno: All about Dunno // Five Corners. - 1996. - No. 19. - P. 8-9.
This article by Boris Karlov presented many facts, ideas and associations, based on which we built our material about the Nosovsky hero.
Lavrov A. Artist A. Laptev // Children's literature. - 1969. - No. 1. - P. 39-45.
Medvedeva N. Who first introduced our children to Murzilka? // Children's literature. - 1993. - No. 7. - P. 42-43.
Pervik A. The world of fantastic creatures in Soviet children's literature // Children's literature 1984: Sat. - M.: Det. lit., 1984. - pp. 181-190.
Prikhodko V. The sparkling flute of Nikolai Nosov // Children's literature. - 1999. - No. 2-3. - P. 4-7.
Rassadin St. Nikolay Nosov: Critical biography. essay.- M.: Det. lit., 1961. - 79 p.: ill. - (House of children's books)
Repyeva I. Nosov, father of Dunno // Teacher’s newspaper. - 2002. - No. 1. - P. 24.
Samodelova S. Semi-eternal Dunno // Moskovsky Komsomolets. - 2003. - November 24. - P. 10.
Chervonny S. Murzilka, Dunno’s older brother // Book Review. - 1995. - No. 20. - P. 24-25.
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Dunno... Spelling dictionary-reference book
The hero of N.N. Nosov’s fairy-tale trilogy “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” (1954), “Dunno in the Sunny City” (1958), “Dunno on the Moon” (1965). “He was nicknamed N. because he didn’t know anything.” In his bright blue hat, canary trousers and... ... Literary heroes
Nemoguznaika, virgin Dictionary of Russian synonyms. dunno noun, number of synonyms: 2 dunno (1) ... Synonym dictionary
Dunno, and husband. and wives (colloquial). A person who knows little or nothing (in children's speech about children). Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
Dunno- The hero of the fairy tale of the trilogy by N.N. Nosov "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends". The first two parts of the trilogy (“The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” and “Dunno in the Sunny City”) were published in 1953–1958. The third novel, the fairy tale “Dunno on the Moon,” was... ... Linguistic and regional dictionary
M. and f. Fairytale character. Ephraim's explanatory dictionary. T. F. Efremova. 2000... Modern Dictionary Russian language Efremova
Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno (Source: “Full accented paradigm according to A. A. Zaliznyak”) ... Forms of words
dunno- I don’t know, Ika, and, gen. p.m. h. aek, husband and wives And ( fairy tale character) I don’t know, and my husband... Russian spelling dictionary
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dunno- (1 m and f); pl. ignorant, R. ignorant... Spelling dictionary of the Russian language
Books
- Dunno in Sunny City, Nosov N.. Dunno did three good deeds in a row, and for this the wizard gave him a magic wand. But he warned that the wand would lose its power if the boy committed three bad deeds. . AND…
- Dunno in Sunny City, Nosov N.. Dunno did three good deeds in a row, and for this the wizard gave him a magic wand. But he warned that the wand would lose its power if the boy committed three bad deeds. And so,…
As a child, “The Adventures of Dunno” by the writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov can be read to the core. They read the book and have fun over the adventures of the ridiculous and kind Dunno. Only children usually don’t know who wrote “The Adventures of Dunno.” The author is known to his parents.
How N.N.’s books were created Nosova
To some extent by accident. In 1908, a boy Kolya was born in Kyiv. The family was not wealthy. His father was an artist, but his earnings were so unreliable that he even had to work as a railway worker. The family lived in the town of Irpen, where the boy went to school and did not even imagine that he would someday become a writer and write “The Adventures of Dunno.” The author of the book is something lofty, and he is just a simple boy, Kolya Nosov. The parents and he himself wanted the child to become an artist. Nikolai dreamed of a violin and, in the end, got it. Well, isn't this happiness? But it turned out to be so difficult to play that the violin was removed away.
Wars
When Kolya was seven years old, the First World War began, and it continued with the Civil War. The country was hungry and cold. Epidemics began. The whole family of the one who would later write “The Adventures of Dunno” lay in typhoid delirium. The author of the book, which will soon become famous, miraculously survived. The mother cried with joy that everyone was alive.
What goes on the pages of books
Kolya Nosov was an independent and lively boy who was interested in many things. He was an enthusiastic photographer, loved to play chess, and was interested in electrical engineering. And when radio appeared, he did not ignore this either. Kolya became interested in amateur radio. The future heroes of his stories and books will be as inquisitive as he himself was in childhood. So the boys from the story “Mishkina Porridge”, left alone, will begin to cook porridge and, not knowing how to properly manage cereals and water and maintain proportions, they will cook it not for two, but for a whole company. But you won’t be able to eat this porridge. She'll burn all over. But the lively and cheerful heroes of Nikolai Nosov’s stories never lose heart and always find a way out of the situation. In “The Adventures of Dunno” the author will introduce the same cheerful and cheerful tone.
And although the hero is too confident in himself, his friends sometimes delicately, sometimes directly say that he is an incompetent who needs to learn everything. Writing poetry or driving a car, for example, is not at all as simple as it seems to the simple-minded Dunno.
After the war
Nikolai Nosov graduated from high school and dreamed of becoming a chemist, but he had to work - be a digger, mow grass, work in the mud, first at a concrete and then at a brick factory. But Nikolai quickly became disillusioned with chemistry and became interested in cinema. He began studying at the Institute of Cinematography, and this became his life’s work for many years. He had not yet seriously thought about writing books. The book “The Adventures of Dunno” with the little people from was still a long way off.
Even in the plans there was neither Znayka, nor the poet Tsvetik, nor Vintik and Shpuntik, two wonderful mechanics. Dunno had not yet learned from the musician Gusli to play the trumpet and escape from a piece of the sun, which, in Dunno’s opinion, came off and fell.
Writer Nosov
Future writer adult life I tried to work in different directions. And he began writing children's books at the age of thirty. The first story was "Entertainers". The author of the book will write his wonderful “Adventures of Dunno” much later.
At first, the future author of “Dunno” and many short stories and tales told his little son and his friends interesting tales and stories. And then he realized that it was interesting to come up with something for children. However, considerable erudition and knowledge of the psychology of children and adolescents is required. For the story “The Cheerful Family,” it was necessary to know how the incubator works, what temperature should be maintained in it, how eggs are pecked from inside the chicken and hatched from them. And you need to write about it in an entertaining way, so that the teenager wants to do something with his own hands. But my favorite books were about Dunno and his friends. Everyone excitedly studied how Znayka came up with a hot air balloon.
The wonderful writer died in 1976 in Moscow. Now it’s no secret to anyone who wrote the book “The Adventures of Dunno.” Author - Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov.
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