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| '''Yan Leopoldivich Larri''' ({{langx|ru|Ян Леопольдович Ларри}}) (February 15, 1900 – March 18, 1977) was a Soviet children's writer of Latvian descent. He is best known for children's ] novel {{ill|The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya|ru|Необыкновенные приключения Карика и Вали}}<!--Category:Fiction about size change-->.<ref name=rin>Евгений Викторович Харитонов, , ''Detskaya Literatura'', 2001, no. 4, pp. 101-105</ref><ref name=zadi></ref><ref name=prodetlit></ref><ref name=arhivsf></ref> | '''Yan Leopoldivich Larri''' ({{langx|ru|Ян Леопольдович Ларри}}) (February 15, 1900 – March 18, 1977) was a Soviet children's writer of Latvian descent. He is best known for children's ] novel {{ill|The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya|ru|Необыкновенные приключения Карика и Вали}}<!--Category:Fiction about size change-->.<ref name=rin>Евгений Викторович Харитонов, , ''Detskaya Literatura'', 2001, no. 4, pp. 101-105</ref><ref name=zadi></ref><ref name=prodetlit></ref><ref name=arhivsf></ref> | ||
| In 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned for an extraordinary act. Larri started writing a science fiction novel ''A Guest from the Sky'' ({{lang|ru|Небесный гость}}) and sending its chapters directly to ]. In the novel an alien visits the Soviet Union and his naive questions and commentaries constitute the criticism of the Soviet life.<ref name=rin/><ref name=zadi/> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| {{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
| ==Further reading== | |||
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| *Rafaela Božić, POZNAŃSKIE STUDIA SLAWISTYCZNE NR 22 (2022), {{doi|10.14746 / pss.2022.22.2}} | |||
| *:The article comments on Larri's 1931 science fiction novel ''The land of the Happy'' ({{lang|ru|Страна счастливых}}), a utopian fiction about communism | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| * translated by John A. Mandeville | * translated by John A. Mandeville; the text at the ] | ||
| {{DEFAULTSORT:Larri, Yan}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Larri, Yan}} | ||
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Yan Leopoldivich Larri (Russian: Ян Леопольдович Ларри) (February 15, 1900 – March 18, 1977) was a Soviet children's writer of Latvian descent. He is best known for children's science fiction novel The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya [ru].
In 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned for an extraordinary act. Larri started writing a science fiction novel A Guest from the Sky (Небесный гость) and sending its chapters directly to Joseph Stalin. In the novel an alien visits the Soviet Union and his naive questions and commentaries constitute the criticism of the Soviet life.
References
- ^ Евгений Викторович Харитонов, Ларри Ян Леопольдович - Приключения писателя-фантаста в "Стране счастливых", Detskaya Literatura, 2001, no. 4, pp. 101-105
- ^ Ян Леопольдович Ларри
- Ларри Ян Леопольдович
- Ларри Ян Леопольдович
Further reading
- Rafaela Božić, The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels POZNAŃSKIE STUDIA SLAWISTYCZNE NR 22 (2022), doi:10.14746 / pss.2022.22.2
- The article comments on Larri's 1931 science fiction novel The land of the Happy (Страна счастливых), a utopian fiction about communism
External links
- The Extraordinary Adventures Of Karik And Valya translated by John A. Mandeville; the text at the Internet Archive