Ben Elton: Bibliography

Often, when faced with a truly talented person, one wonders why some people nature or the Lord God himself was rewarded in full, while others were a little bit offended? But it's true, if a person succeeds in one thing, then it immediately turns out that he is talented in another. No wonder there is a well-known saying about it. Here, for example, Ben Elton - a native of the UK: he is a director, actor, writer and playwright. And not just someone who tries to try everything at once, but a man who really succeeded in everything and managed to prove to the whole world that he is the best. It is clear that one article is not enough to describe all the achievements of a talented Englishman, so today's note will be devoted exclusively to the author's creativity of Ben Elton: his books, reviews of them and reviews of the main critics - readers.

A few words about the family

To begin with, a few words about the culprit of the narrative. Ben Elton was born, as mentioned above, in the UK. More precisely, in the suburbs of London, May 3, 1959. Speaking about his family, it is worth noting that it is rather difficult, in the sense that there were too many educated and unordinary personalities for one square meter of area: mother - English teacher, father - research physicist, other close relatives - musicians, scientists and Scientific employees. Currently, Ben Elton is married to the saxophonist of Australian origin Sophie Gar. The couple has three children: Bert, Lotty and Fred. The family has long been living in Australia, in the town of Fremantle.

How did it all start?

In fact, after receiving two higher educations, Ben Elton opened himself to the public as a comedian. They wrote quite a lot of plays just a comedy direction, which could win the public's general love. These were not just plays, but hits. Some of them, such as "Popcorn" and "Cow Sally", touring to this day around the world. "Popcorn" even received the award as the best comedy and new play: the Olivier Awards and the TMA Barclays Theater Awards. It costs a lot. By the way, it was Ben Elton who came up with the famous character - Mr. Bean.

The first steps in writing serious works

The first book, which should be regarded as the beginning of a new stage in Elton's work, can be considered "Stark", released in Australia in 1988. Here it is meant that you need to look at Elton as the author of serious works. The book immediately became a bestseller, sold more than a million copies. Then it became obvious that the comedian is able to write serious things, taking for the soul, deep and incredibly piercing.

Ben Alton's Bibliography

Since 1988, Elton has written and published many books. Among the most striking is the following:

1. "Time and again time."
2. "Two brothers".
3. "Blind faith."
4. "Death Behind the Glass."
5. "Until the last call."
6. "Second Eden."
7. "Secular foolishness."
8. "Number one".
9. "Everything is possible, baby."
10. "The first victim."

The list of works presented is far from complete, but these books by Ben Elton are some of the most recognized and appreciated by critics and the readers themselves. Today, we will dwell in more detail on the first two: "Two brothers," "Time and again time."

"Two brothers"

Many who read this book find it hard to perceive. And how else can you relate to the events of the 20-40s, when Nazism in Germany flourished, and Jews were persecuted. The book "Two Brothers" by Ben Elton is, according to the author himself, an artistic fiction, in which there is a piece of truth. Elton was based on the memories of his father, in whose veins the Jewish blood flowed. He managed to escape from Hitler's Germany. In the center of the plot are two families: Fisher (Germans) and Stengel (Jews). In the latter, a boy of German descent grows beautifully. It so happened that he was adopted by an infant and brought up with his own son, without sharing. This is a novel about friendship, love, betrayal and self-sacrifice, which is read in one breath. In the text there is an abundance of obscene lexicon, which critics have ranked as a unique author's move. Horrors of wartime, according to reviewers, it would be impossible to convey more accurately, without resorting to anti-literary terms.

After the publication of the work "Two Brothers" towards the author, along with admiring comments, an abundance of unflattering reviews fell down. Ben Elton was accused of excessive idealization of England and the British themselves, a prejudiced attitude towards Russian soldiers, whom he exposed as rapists and dirty people, and it was the Russians who managed to defeat the fascists. In general, the book caused a wide public response. By the way, it is considered that if the author of the work managed to raise a wave of admiration mixed with indignation, then the work done was not in vain. "Two brothers" Ben Elton became just such a book.

"Time and again time"

This work is a kind of fantastic quest, in which the protagonist, according to the author, the best of the best, former commando Hugh Stanton, should go to the past from the 20th century to prevent war. For this, the hero must kill the main instigator of the mutiny. So, in Ben Elton's book "Time and Again Time," the storyline is based on the author's reasoning concerning the theme: "What would have happened if it had not been? How would life have changed without a significant event in history? "

The reviews point out that the book makes you think about the global, suggest another outcome of the events. The author as if once again tries to speculate about what would have happened if there was no situation that caused a huge number of human deaths. I could not defeat Nazism, in tsarist Russia there would not have been a massacre of the monarch's family, and the other could have been avoided. In the work there are many descriptions of the cities of the world, and to England the author has his own special attitude: tremulous, one can say, full of pride.

Finally

If we take into account the two books discussed above, it seems that the author underestimates the contribution of Russian people to the liberation of the world from the yoke of Hitler's troops. He blames many, placing emphasis on the goodwill of the English people, focusing on his humanism. This is what causes the waves of misunderstanding from some readers and critics. They forget that every person in the world has his own individual point of view on things that must be respected by others.