“Day without lies” Tokareva in brief
Twenty-five-year-old Valentine, a high school teacher, wakes up one morning with a sense of happiness, because he dreamed of a rainbow. Valentine is late for work – he teaches French in high school. He thinks that lately he has become too often to lie, and understands: lying on trifles means that he is not free and someone is afraid. Valentine decides to live a day without lying.
Once he wanted to study at the Literary Institute at the department of artistic translation, then – to become an interpreter and go abroad. Neither one nor the other failed. As it was not possible after the end of the year to leave for the steppe, which he dreamed of, it was not possible because of his mother and Nina’s girlfriend. Now he translates stories from one language to another, although no one promises him money.
In the trolley bus, Valentine drops three kopecks into the cash register and tears off the ticket – because he is sorry to overpay a penny by dropping
At school, he begins his usual lesson in the fifth “B” class. The pupil Sobakin, as always, climbed onto the Swedish wall, but Valentin does not require that he sit down at the desk. Instead of explaining the boring grammar to the children, Valentin tells them about the artistic translation, recites “Cola Bryunion” in translation of Lozinsky and Rabelais in Lyubimov’s translation. The children listen to Rabelais for the first time in their lives, and Valentine sees that for the first time they do not look through him. He does not try to justify himself before the head teacher Vera Petrovna for being late, and she says that it’s impossible to talk to him today.
Coming out of school, Valentine without a queue buys grapes, because he hurries to Nina, with whom he quarreled yesterday; the queue silently allows him to do it. Valentin does not know if he loves Nina, who has known him for five years, but he has the feeling that God himself instructed
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