16 July 1951 published novel by Jerome Salinger “the catcher in the rye,” which led his contemporaries to resentment. The guardians of morality were disappointed with the allusions to sex and rebellious nature of the protagonist. The author gave the manuscript to print a year earlier, but then it was withdrawn. The publication in the future abruptly changed the course of his life: he became a recluse, forbidden to reissue early works, print letters and to film his books.
We decided to recall the works of famous writers who, for strange reason could not see the light.
Gogol
Nikolai was a man c temper. Shortly before his own death, he decided on a strange thing destroyed the second volume of “Dead souls”, which outlined his religious strivings, thoughts and reasoning. On the night of 24 February 1852 Nikolai Gogol had his servant to bring a portfolio with drafts of the second volume. He wrote a will and burned the manuscript. Speaking of the second volume of “Dead souls” he spoke as his great creation.
Planned 3 volume of Dead souls, but the 2nd Gogol burned, and 3rd and not started
The next day, Gogol with sorrow and astonishment was aware of his action, telling count A. Tolstoy that he sincerely amazed at what you’ve done what you wanted to burn only some things in advance for something cooked, and burned, all under the influence of the evil spirit. Well, we got at least the first volume. Actually, it was planned 3 volume: the second was destroyed, survived only a few chapters in draft, and the third volume was planned but never started.
Kafka
In life, Kafka published only a few short stories, which did not attract enough attention. Throughout his life he wrote, but not published, and before his death bequeathed to burn all he has written. His lover did so, but a best friend disobeyed. He published most of Kafka’s works, which soon began to attract attention. So Kafka after his death became one of the most distinguished German speaking writers of the XX century.
Franz Kafka was an outstanding writer of the twentieth century only after the death
His major novels “America” (1911-1916), “Process” (1914-1915) and “Castle” (1921-1922) — saw the light after the author’s death.
Pushkin
Pushkin was himself a stern editor. He often tore pages from their drafts and destroy them. Also impulsive Alexander destroyed all drafts “the Captain’s daughter” and the poem “Robbers”. The pieces, which miraculously survived, and later formed the basis of the plot of “the fountain of Bakhchisarai”. The poet wrote on 13 June 1823 A. Bestuzhev, who published together with Ryleev’s almanac “polar star”: “the Robbers I burned — and rightly so. One passage has survived in the hands of Nikolay Raevsky; if the domestic sounds: diner, whip, jail — will not frighten the delicate ears of the readers of “Polar star”, then print it“.
Nabokov
Mr Putin commanded to burn his novel “Laura and its original” because it was over — Nabokov couldn’t afford to publish a work in progress. Folder 138 cards of Nabokov’s novel the wife to burn did not, thereby not complying with part of his will. And the son moreover in 2009 he published a thin book.
Nabokov bequeathed to burn the novel “Laura and its original”, but that didn’t happen
Also Vladimir Nabokov wanted to burn the novel “Lolita” (book manuscript miraculously saved his wife, snatching her literally in flames from the fireplace), which subsequently became the most famous of all his novels.
Bulgakov
In March 1930, Bulgakov received a letter from the chief Committee for repertoire imposed on the prohibition of his plays Moliere, in ten days after that, he no doubt threw into the fire furnace his first manuscript of the Master and Margarita” and the play “Bliss”. “I, with my hands, threw it into the stove draft of the novel about the devil…” — he wrote after that. In General, the writer thought of baking my best editor. He had set fire to not only the parts of the manuscripts, but also his poems and pages of diaries.
Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich burned the story “In this world” after she was severely criticized. Later, however, still included in the novel “Doctor Zhivago” some of the scenes. The winner of the Nobel prize ceremony with their manuscripts — if failed, then it is immediately burned.
Dostoevsky
If the text is by Fyodor Ivanovich was not satisfied, he could easily destroy it and start writing from scratch in the second round. In 1871, before returning to Russia from abroad, for fear of a customs inspection, he burned the manuscript of “the Idiot”, “the Eternal husband” and the first edition of “Devils.” At the insistence of his wife, he agreed to leave the surviving drafts and fragments of these works.
Stephen King
And take the modern author. One day his wife found in the trash a draft of a novel “Carrie”, which king felt bad, and insisted that his spouse was left out. Some time later, the publishing house “Doubleday” published “Carrie”, for which king received an advance of $2500. After the publishing house sold the copyright of “Carrie” publisher “NAL” for $400,000, half of which received the king. Thus began his career as a writer. It was the middle 70s.
The total circulation of books of the king is more than 350 million copies
To date, his books have sold over 350 million copies, which was filmed a number of feature films, television productions, and comic books.
