Write Yanka Bryl began fourteen years, but for the first time appeared in print only in 1938 ( "The Way of Youth" magazine.) In literary abilities J. Bryl had also organizational skills, engaged in cultural and educational work. In his native village, he created a dramatic circle, staged performances and Russian translations for the theatrical repertoire of Russian and Polish authors.

Began the creative activity of the writer of the poem, which is particularly successful author is not brought, and the stories in which the writer's talent was very bright and varied. In 1946 he published the first book of J. Bryl under the modest title "Stories", which included several short stories and a small story "in the family", devoted to the life zapadnobelorusskoy village. Artistic chronicle of the beloved heart of the writer Nadnyamonnya continue his second collection of "Neman Cossacks" (1947) and the novel "The Orphan bread", work on which he started before the war, "The Zabolote dnee" (1950, USSR State Prize, 1952) and " on Bystrantsy "(1955). For these first works of J. Bryl put forward as the original masters of lyric-psychological prose, a good connoisseur of the national language. Many visits around the world soulfully lyrical narrative J. Bryl" Gal "(1953), in which against the background of life zapadnobeloru sskoy village discovered the sensual world of the main character, her deep human drama.

Strongly appealed to the writer and the topic of the Great Patriotic War, the theme of national heroism. Classics of Belarusian literature began his story "Mother" (the collection "The inscription on the wooden house", 1958) - Belarusian anthem woman, a mother who was not afraid at the time of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army shelter emaciated. The theme of war is reflected in the stories from the collection of E. Bryl "Continued talk", which in 1963 received a literary award named after Yakub Kolas. In the early 60-ies. appeared in the press Y. Bryl famous novel "Birds and nest." This is one of the most autobiographical works of the writer was basically a new word in the genre of the novel, which the author calls ". Book one youth" style searches J. Bryl gave birth to a unique combination of epic and lyric -psihologicheskih elements, the intense and emotional for that was unusual for a traditional realist prose of those times. unique in world literature and became established E. Bryl with A. Adamovich and Vladimir Kolesnik documentary I story "I am fiery village ..." (1975) - Terrible memories of survivors of Belarus burned villages, brutal, relentless, bloody truth about the war and fascism. One striking feature includes such remarkable story Ya Bryl as "Lower Bayduny" (1975) and "Dawn, seen from a distance" (1978; State Prize of the BSSR Kolas 1982), - works of a profound national, in which pronounced moral health, nobility and natural wisdom of the Belarusians. The story "Lower Bayduny" from the first to the last page is perceived as a kind of poetic song about people close to the author, his countrymen. Inherent creativity J. Bryl avtabiyagrafizm particularly felt in this work. The story "Breaking Dawn, seen from afar" - about his childhood in the village zapadnobelorusskoy. Critics point out that the Belarusian literature of this work has virtually no equal.

Strong place in the work of E. Bryl occupy lyrical miniatures, which he began to publish since the mid 60s. and that made the book "Horst solar ray" (1965), "Stained Glass" (1972), "crust of bread" (1977), "Today and Memory" (1985), "I am writing as I live" (1994), "Evening" ( 1994), "Where your treasure" (1997), "The path of the road, open space" (2001), "blue candle" (2004), "sprout" (2006). J. Bryl miniatures based on conventional concrete facts, that the writer does not simply reproduce and transmit their impressions of them, his deep, always unique, personal comments, the original understanding of them. It is in the genre of lyrical miniatures of the writer felt most at ease. thumbnails were svoeobr the heat of the book of his life, a lyrical confession of the acclaimed master of himself and the world, about the closest people, the bright and dull tragic manifestations of existence.

Known Yanka Bryl, and as a translator from Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. In his translation of the Russian language out individual works of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Bazhov, G. Trayapolskaga A. Cherry, L. Smilyanskaga, Dovzhenko, V. Kozachenko, M. Konopnicka, E . Orzeszkowa Kruczkowski L., E. Ivashkevich, V. Zhukrovskaga, Tadeusz Różewicz T., M. Yu Kananovich, thick E. et al.

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