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autobiography, considered by some critics to be the summary work of his career. Dodona
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in one of the editorial offices, I showed him the letter from abroad. He calmly produced an elegant envelope exactly like mine from the pocket of his jacket. "Look," he said. "They invited me too, but I'm not bragging about this. Because they did not invite me, of course, as
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directed a film version, which became a classic children's adventure. Kataev wrote its screenplay and took an active part in the filming process, finding locations and acting as a historical advisor. Many of his contemporaries considered the novel to be a
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and wrote nationalistic and anti-Semitic poetry (later in his life he married a Jewish woman, Esther
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