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Литература о жизни и творчестве Виктора КОЛУПАЕВА
Виктор Колупаев
VIKTOR KOLUPAYEV (b. 1936) comes from a settlement called Nezametny, which at that time fully justified its name (Russian ‘inconspicuous’). It is now a large town named Aldan. His parents worked in the gold-fields and later moved to Yakutsk, where the future writer spent his boyhood. As a youth he left for Tomsk, where he still lives. The ancient town of Tomsk with its wooden houses decorated with shutters of exquisitefretwork, its quiet streets all snowed in, its University where so many talented men studied in the past, and its beautiful modern buildings, has become his native town. He graduated from the local Polytechnic Institute with a diploma in radio engineering, married, and lives there with his family, including Disla the English setter. Viktor Kolupayev embarked on a literary career rather late, when he was past thirty. His first story Ticket to Childhood, later included in many publications both in this country and abroad, appeared in the Vokrug Sveta magazine it 1969, three years after it had been written.
It should be noted that the publication was not a moment too early; without it, we would not have the writer Kolupayev. While the story was shuffled from one editorial desk to another, Viktor Kolupayev made up his mind never to write any more science fiction, as this dabbling took up so much of his time and effort which he needed for science. And then – a surprise. An issue of the magazine with his story arrived with his mail. Some time later letters from various parts of the country began pouring in.
1936 was the year of Viktor Kolupayev's physical birth, while 1969 may be regarded as the year when he was born as a creative writer. One after another, his stories began to appear in magazines, collections of stories, and finally in separate volumes: The Things That Do Happen, The Hermit's Swing, and Ticket to Childhood.
Viktor Kolupayev's stories have been translated into many languages and published in Bulgaria, the DDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Sweden, the FRG, and Japan. Hundreds of thousands people have read and enjoyed them.
Viktor Kolupayev's style is unusual. He is not a science fiction writer in the ordinary sense of the term but rather a fairy-tale writer. The heroes of his stories are not creatures of the imagination, powerful und perfect; they are common people with their usual dreams and hopes, but the author sees them through the magnifying glass of kindness, courage, and reason, showing them at such moments when their potential is fully revealed and the ‘little man’ becomes Man in all his beauty. Kolupayev's stories have all the traditional elements of science fiction – extraterrestrials, wondrous time machines, and the like, but that is merely the background for Man, the principal protagonist, a background that helps to bring out the character in a dissicult situation. And it is by no means a simple job, showing the character of man who has stepped beyond the limitations of his possibilities; not just any writer can do it. The world of Viktor Kolupayev's fantasy, so honest and lucid, is inhabited by ordinary men and women; life in this world cannot be easy, but it must be beautiful. That is the feeling you have after reading his stories, and although they sometimes leave you sad, you want again and again to touch this wonderful and kind world created by the talented writer.
Беркова Н.М. Виктор Колупаев // Гость из страны фантастики. – М.: рус. язык, 1981. – С. 46.
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