Starik Hottabych

Suschestvuet dva varianta knizhki "Starik Hottabych". Pered vami naibolee polnyy, ob'emnyy tekst klassicheskoy povesti, navsegda voshedshey v zolotoy fond nashey detskoy literatury: ona byla napisana v 1955 godu, no segodnyashnie mal'chishki i devchonki chitayut ee s ne men'shim uvlecheniem, chem ih babushki i dedushki - v gody svoego pionerskogo detstva. Imenno po etoy versii knigi Lazarya Lagina v 1957 godu byl snyat polnometrazhnyy hudozhestvennyy fil'm, - ego tozhe lyubyat i s udovol'stviem peresmatrivayut snova i snova po sey den'. Lazar' Iosifovich Lagin, pridumavshiy Hottabycha, pisal odnazhdy: "Odni lyudi vnosyat v obschee delo svoyu leptu, drugie - svoy lepet". On otnosilsya k pervym. Ego literaturnaya lepta ves'ma suschestvenna. I dazhe esli by on napisal tol'ko odnu etu skazochnuyu povest', to i togda on ostavil by svoy sled v literature.