Lazar Lagin

Lazar Lagin

Lazar Lagin ( _ru. Лазарь Иосифович Лагин, Lazar Yosifovych Lagin) (pen-name of Lazar Ginzburg, December 4, 1903 in Vitebsk – June 4, 1979) was a Soviet satirist and children's writer.

He is best known for his book, "Starik Hottabych" ("Старик Хоттабыч", "Old Man Hottabych", 1937), a fairy tale (heavily coloured with communist and pro-Soviet ideology) telling the story of a genie who is freed from captivity by a Soviet schoolboy (the general plotline may be borrowed from F. Anstey's "Brass Bottle"). The genie, as is to be expected, has some trouble in adapting to modern life and the communist lifestyle. The book was very popular among children in its day; it was made into a film in 1956.

Lagin's science fiction novels are set in imaginary Western "Capitalist" countries and satirize misuse of scientific inventions in bourgeois society. His novella "Maior Vell Endyu" ("Майор Велл Эндъю", "Major Well Andyou") is a satiric sequel to Herbert George Wells' The War of the Worlds.

See also

*Starik Khottabych, a Soviet Union 1956 film

In English

* The Old Genie Hottabych. Moscow, Foreign Language Editions

External links

* [http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Lagin.htm Lazar Lagin biography on the Belarus SIG Newsletters] , by Vitaly Charny


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