Biography
Eitel Voyani was born in Ireland, wrote in English and died in the United States. However, the novel of the writer about the revolutionary, which struggles for the independence of Italy from the Austrian occupiers, received the greatest popularity in Tsarist Russia and the USSR. The Book "The Food" quoted Nikolai Ostrovsky in the work "How Steel hardened", she was read and inspired by the future heroes of the Great Patriotic Wagon and Alexander Kosmodemyansky.Childhood and youth
The future writer was born on May 11, 1864 in the Irish village of Ballinkle, in the family of Professor of Mathematics George Bul. The girl called Ethel Lilian was the fifth daughter of one of the founders of mathematical logic, on whose works in the 20th century began research Bertrand Russell and Claude Shannon. The older sisters of the novelist - Alicia, Lucy, Mary and Margaret - became famous as independent scientists, wives and mother mathematicians.
When Ethel was half a year, her father died. The cause of the death of a 49-year-old man became pneumonia. The problems with the lungs were in childhood and the future novelist. For this reason, the mother Ethel is a teacher of mathematics and a popularizer of the heritage of the deceased husband Mary Everest, at the 8th age he took the younger daughter to the devil - Secondary and a pious person who worked in the min.
In communicating with the nephew, Uncle focused on the eradication of the "vices" of the girl. So, when a senior relative seemed that Ethel was taken by a piece of sugar without demand, he locked the daughter of the late brother in Chulana.
Children's experience writer reflected in the novel "Jack Reimond". For life, Ethel retained a wary of religion and piousness, believing that the religion could push a person to the dynamics and the commission of bad actions. Known quotation from the work of Waiche "take your shoes":
"Probably, God just slowly drag all sinners to heaven, when the angels turn away, and then prevent the look that he himself does not understand how they were going there."In a few years, the mother found a job in London and took the youngest daughter to the British capital. At 18, Ethel received a small inheritance and entered the Berlin Conservatory to improve in the game on the piano. In the capital of the German Empire, the girl attended the lectures of Slavists and became interested in Russian culture.
Personal life
In the life of Ethel, with his youth, who went solely in a black dress in a sign of grief in the imperfection of the world, was one marriage. But besides the spouse, two more men produced a strong impression on a native of a ballinkle, and all three were out of the Russian Empire. The first gentleman who had an impact on the life and creativity of the writer, became the peopling and writer Sergey Kravchinsky, who published under the pseudonym steppe.Under the influence of the Russian Buntar, who lived in emigration in London, Ethel learned Russian and 2 years lived in Voronezh province as a governess of Vesevitinov family. An interesting fact: Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, judging by the photo, similar to his idol Carl Marx, became the prototype of the main character not only in the "hedge", but also in the novel of Emil Zol "Zerminal". Sergey Mikhailovich, like Anna Karenina, died under the wheels of the train. According to investigators, the tragic incident that happened at the end of 1895 was not a suicide, but an accident.
The surname of Vozhney Ethel found, going out in 42 married to the Polish-Lithuanian revolutionary who fled to London from the Siberian Links, "Mikhail Leonardovich Voynich, in England who lived under the name Wilfred Michael Voyniche. The marriage did not bring the writer or children nor wealth, but in the future turned frustrated: the husband lost romantic ideals and turned into an antiquary and bookseller. The professional achievement of Wilfred Michael was the acquisition of a manuscript on an unknown ancient language, which was called "Waruscript".
According to rumors, Etel's beloved was a native of Odessa - the British scout Sydney Railil. The spy, who organized the murder by the Ester Yakovy Blumykina of the German ambassador in Russia, Wilhelm von Mirbach and standing at the head of operation "Trust", became one of the prototypes of James Bond. The image of Raili in the Soviet cinema was embodied by Alexander Shirvindt, Vladimir Tatos and Sergey Yursky.
The second half of the life of Ethel dedicated to musical creativity. Among the works of the war-composer - the oratorio "Babylon", cantata "underwater city" and "epitaph in the form of ballads".
Since 1920, Voikhany lived in the United States, in New York. At first with her husband, and after his death - with his companion, girlfriend and secretary of Anna Nill.
Books
Wagoney is the author of five novels, a collection of translation "Humor Russia" and translating into the language of William Shakespeare of six Poam Taras Shevchenko. The debut product of Ethel "Wood", which tells about the fate of Arthur Berton (Felice Rivares), the Italian revolutionary about the fate of Arthur Berton.
In response to the question of Boris Polevoy about who served as the prototype of the central hero of the famous Roman, the writer said that Arthur was the synthesis of her fantasies, experience, conversations with Russian free-rope and recycling of read books. The creation of the image of Rivares, Etel inspired also the "Portrait of a young man" of the brush of the Italian artist Franchabijo. The canvas that Valkali saw in his youth in Louvre prompted the daughter of mathematicians to compose a character's biography filled with struggle, suffering and deprivation. Vocket never parted with a copy of the picture.
Another 2 Roman Valkali - "interrupted friendship" and "take your shoes" - plotically connected with the fate of Rivares. The first describes the wanders of Arthur in South America, and the second, which became the swan song of the writer, - the biographies of the ancestors of his beloved character.
In the novel "Olivia Lames" was reflected by the personal life of Ethel. The heroine loves the Russian revolutionary first, and then his Polish colleague.
All works of the Vichanic have a pronounced anticleric orientation. The repetitive motives of novels - the death of the child, the friendship of brother and sisters or his father and daughter, the appearance of the heroes of a new type - ascetov, ready for victims for the sake of struggle for justice.
Death
Ethel Vichanic died in New York in the summer of 1960 aged 96 years. Researchers disagree in the indication of the exact date of death of the author "Odod". Some biographers believe that the writer died on July 27, and others - that on July 28.Over 5 years before the death of Etel, by decision Nikita Khrushchev, received a fee for editions of her books in the Soviet Union of $ 15 thousand in size and a copy of the film "Wood" with Oleg Strizhenov in the lead role. Soviet filmmaking Room disappointed.
According to the will of the novelist, her body is cremated, and the dust dispelled over the Central Park of New York.
Bibliography
- 1897 - "GUYD"
- 1901 - "Jack Reimond"
- 1904 - Olivia Late
- 1910 - "Chopped Friendship"
- 1945 - "Remove your shoes"