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The teacher of literature
The story begins with a group of young people on a riding party at the Shelestov estate. One of the guests is Nikitin, a young-looking man in his mid-20's, who teachers literature at the local school, and loves Masha, the 18-year-old younger daughter of their host. Later, over dinner Varya, the older daughter, argues with Nikitin over some points of literature, and another guest scolds him for having never read the German writer, Lessing. But Nikitin glides through the evening on a cloud of love. A day later he returns and proposes to Masha. In the second part of the story, the wedding occurs. Nikitin and Masha are deliriously happy---'I am immensely happy with you, my joy, ' he used to say, playing with her fingers or plaiting and unplaiting her hair.- But soon one of Nikitin's friends and fellow teachers develops erysipelas and dies. After that, everything returns to normal, so much so that Nikitin has nothing to write in his diary. Life seems to be closing in on him. He feels like trying to get away from his wife, -Where am I, my God? I am surrounded by vulgarity and vulgarity. Wearisome, insignificant people, pots of sour cream, jugs of milk, cockroaches, stupid women . . . There is nothing more terrible. I must escape from here, I must escape today . . . -
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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
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October 17, 2018
როდესაც ავტორად ჩეხოვს ხედავ ყოველთვის რაღაც განსაკუთრებულს ელი. იმედგამაცრუებელი მოთხრობაა, მაგრამ არც იმდენად, რომ აძაგო. თხრობის სტილი ძალიან კარგია, ასევე სიუჟეტებიც, მაგრამ აზრი მოიკოჭლებს და ეს არის ასავალი წერტილი.
February 26, 2025
Ядрёный концентрат гиперболизированного фарса с типичной позднечеховской хтонью. В высшей степени провокационно, но не убедительно ни на йоту. Пошлее обывательщины могут быть только эти якобы внезапно прозревшие истеричные ничтожества типа Никитина и всякие суждения о преимуществе вкалывания на заводе перед рутинной праздностью. Право, позавчерашний никому не нужный провинциал, вчерашний алкоголик и картёжник, которому на голову упало приданое, да и то бонусом, так как брак был изначально по любви, и с которым он решительно не знает что вообще можно делать – таким правдорубам в первую очередь к себе в голову лезть и разбираться в собственных тараканах! Рефреном сверлящее мозг «хамство» Шелестова и однообразные банальности Ипполита Ипполитыча, в том числе и на смертном одре, выглядят так же убедительно, как и предполагаемое «духовное перерождение» Никитина. Видно, полемика с Марком Аврелией была остановлена преждевременно.
September 4, 2025
The Teacher of Literature by Anton Chekhov
10 out of 10
There are quite a few psychological effects, aspects in this phenomenal short story, which incidentally touches on psychology, the idea that Pushkin was not a psychologist – ‘you set the boys in the eighth class an essay on ‘Pushkin as a Psychologist…To begin with, you shouldn’t set such a difficult subject; and, secondly, Pushkin was not a psychologist…Shtchedrin now, or Dostoevsky let us say, is a different matter, but Pushkin is a great poet and nothing more…”we could think of The Honeymoon, Coolidge and perhaps the Hedonic Adaption Effects as being represented quite well by this narrative, if not perfectly.
Nikitin is the narrator and central character of the tale, the one who visits Old Shelestov and his daughter, Masha aka Marie Godefroi, being infatuated with the latter – the word love should be avoided, given the fact that we know what happens at the end – spoiler alert…you may know as well, depending on which way this note is going and more importantly, your decision to keep reading from here on – where the hero may change dramatically his attitude towards the once dazzling Masha, according to the Proustian law which explains that we desire what we do not have and once someone becomes more accessible, we lose the admiration we once felt…one of the many case exposed in the greatest work of literature, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, has the hero think he will demonstrate his courage, rectitude and so much more to one of his loves, only to see that once the flame has diminished or been extinguished, he has no more desire to show her…well, anything and her opinion does not matter anymore…
Though he is twenty six, Nikitin is infuriated that people consider him too young and treat him as if he would be a student...’ everything at the Shelestovs’ pleased him: the house, the garden, and the evening tea, and the wickerwork chairs, and the old nurse, and even the word “loutishness,” which the old man was fond of using’ since we are told he loves Masha – though this viewer begs to differ, given the involution suffered and other reasons for caution, one of them connected with Thomas Mann…
‘Mushka was a little mangy dog with a shaggy face, spiteful and spoiled…She hated Nikitin: when she saw him she put her head on one side, showed her teeth, and began: “Rrr…nga-nga-nga…rrr…” she is the one element that is in contrast with the rest of the family, property and all connected with Masha, unless of course we look into the future, which is to say at the end of the short story and notice the boredom, the dissatisfaction that we can associate with The Honeymoon Effect – it was noticed in psychological studies that couples tend to drift apart after a period of two years – some sort of honeymoon – and then they look for something new, in a manner we can associate this with the Hedonic Adaptation, albeit for this phenomenon, we are mostly talking of things, cars, watches, objects we get used with after a short time and then stop seeing them…it looks like it happens with people too…
It is obviously not a general rule, more than half of couples stay married after all and close to half get divorced, if my figures are correct – anyway, it depends on the land you are in, there would be some countries, Saudi Arabia comes to mind, wherein for one to get separated, he needs to be a man and then for women it is much more complicated…if they so wish, they can even be victims of ‘honor killings’- but there is the Coolidge Effect, named after an anecdote that has the president visiting a farm with his wife, the story of a rooster, the number of copulations, the fact that there is always a different hen involved…
Nikitin declares his love eventually, though it was not easy for him to gather the strength, courage to do that – with hindsight, he had to do it…later in the Game People Play, he would talk to his then wife and she would be unhappy that a man that looks like a suitor, fat and disagreeable as he is, is departing and the sister will not be married…what was he thinking, coming there so much and not proposing….to which Nikitin later responds with…you mean I had to propose when I was visiting your family…you know very well.
The ‘loving’ man has dreams connected with his future life along Masha, at school, where he is a teacher, the students had learned about his infatuation and write in two classes the entitles of his loved one and shout her name, when he is finished with them…Old Shelestov though is not happy with the proposal “I am very grateful for the honor you do me and my daughter, but let me speak to you as a friend…I will speak to you, not as a father, but as one gentleman to another…Tell me, why do you want to be married so young…Only peasants are married so young, and that, of course, is loutishness…But why should you…Where’s the satisfaction of putting on the fetters at your age” and we could find much to disagree and commend in this text, on the one hand the protest of the father appears misplaced because the would be groom is not that young and more importantly, if they love each other, love finds a way and we can add here such clichés and déjà vu commentary, quotes and even poems…
Nonetheless, Old Shelestov is actually closer to the truth, in that John Gottman, the ultimate expert on marriage, author of the archetypal The Seven Secrets of Making Marriage Work http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/t... the one who has an accuracy rate of more than ninety percent, when estimating the chances that couples have of staying together or splitting, explains that we need to know very much about the partner and it looks like Nikitin and Masha do not learn enough about each other, given that at least the man becomes very disaffected with his marital status, sees himself as bored and in need of dramatic change – as for the latter part, change is indeed essential, as explained by another psychological phenomenon, called the Lasagna Effect by the Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar…he states that he loves his mother’s cooking, in particular her lasagna, but he would not eat it all day, every day and there is Stefan Klein making the same argument in his Science of Happiness…
There is also the theme of material wealth – and it is better to Be than to Have, as our late magician-professor Anton Chevorchian said it – and the impact it has on our happiness, or better said, it fails to have, once we become comfortable…Nikitin becomes rich, but he says in his diary “Where am I, my God…I am surrounded by vulgarity and vulgarity…Wearisome, insignificant people, pots of sour cream, jugs of milk, cockroaches, stupid women…There is nothing more terrible, mortifying, and distressing than vulgarity…I must escape from here, I must escape today, or I shall go out of my mind!”
10 out of 10
There are quite a few psychological effects, aspects in this phenomenal short story, which incidentally touches on psychology, the idea that Pushkin was not a psychologist – ‘you set the boys in the eighth class an essay on ‘Pushkin as a Psychologist…To begin with, you shouldn’t set such a difficult subject; and, secondly, Pushkin was not a psychologist…Shtchedrin now, or Dostoevsky let us say, is a different matter, but Pushkin is a great poet and nothing more…”we could think of The Honeymoon, Coolidge and perhaps the Hedonic Adaption Effects as being represented quite well by this narrative, if not perfectly.
Nikitin is the narrator and central character of the tale, the one who visits Old Shelestov and his daughter, Masha aka Marie Godefroi, being infatuated with the latter – the word love should be avoided, given the fact that we know what happens at the end – spoiler alert…you may know as well, depending on which way this note is going and more importantly, your decision to keep reading from here on – where the hero may change dramatically his attitude towards the once dazzling Masha, according to the Proustian law which explains that we desire what we do not have and once someone becomes more accessible, we lose the admiration we once felt…one of the many case exposed in the greatest work of literature, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, has the hero think he will demonstrate his courage, rectitude and so much more to one of his loves, only to see that once the flame has diminished or been extinguished, he has no more desire to show her…well, anything and her opinion does not matter anymore…
Though he is twenty six, Nikitin is infuriated that people consider him too young and treat him as if he would be a student...’ everything at the Shelestovs’ pleased him: the house, the garden, and the evening tea, and the wickerwork chairs, and the old nurse, and even the word “loutishness,” which the old man was fond of using’ since we are told he loves Masha – though this viewer begs to differ, given the involution suffered and other reasons for caution, one of them connected with Thomas Mann…
‘Mushka was a little mangy dog with a shaggy face, spiteful and spoiled…She hated Nikitin: when she saw him she put her head on one side, showed her teeth, and began: “Rrr…nga-nga-nga…rrr…” she is the one element that is in contrast with the rest of the family, property and all connected with Masha, unless of course we look into the future, which is to say at the end of the short story and notice the boredom, the dissatisfaction that we can associate with The Honeymoon Effect – it was noticed in psychological studies that couples tend to drift apart after a period of two years – some sort of honeymoon – and then they look for something new, in a manner we can associate this with the Hedonic Adaptation, albeit for this phenomenon, we are mostly talking of things, cars, watches, objects we get used with after a short time and then stop seeing them…it looks like it happens with people too…
It is obviously not a general rule, more than half of couples stay married after all and close to half get divorced, if my figures are correct – anyway, it depends on the land you are in, there would be some countries, Saudi Arabia comes to mind, wherein for one to get separated, he needs to be a man and then for women it is much more complicated…if they so wish, they can even be victims of ‘honor killings’- but there is the Coolidge Effect, named after an anecdote that has the president visiting a farm with his wife, the story of a rooster, the number of copulations, the fact that there is always a different hen involved…
Nikitin declares his love eventually, though it was not easy for him to gather the strength, courage to do that – with hindsight, he had to do it…later in the Game People Play, he would talk to his then wife and she would be unhappy that a man that looks like a suitor, fat and disagreeable as he is, is departing and the sister will not be married…what was he thinking, coming there so much and not proposing….to which Nikitin later responds with…you mean I had to propose when I was visiting your family…you know very well.
The ‘loving’ man has dreams connected with his future life along Masha, at school, where he is a teacher, the students had learned about his infatuation and write in two classes the entitles of his loved one and shout her name, when he is finished with them…Old Shelestov though is not happy with the proposal “I am very grateful for the honor you do me and my daughter, but let me speak to you as a friend…I will speak to you, not as a father, but as one gentleman to another…Tell me, why do you want to be married so young…Only peasants are married so young, and that, of course, is loutishness…But why should you…Where’s the satisfaction of putting on the fetters at your age” and we could find much to disagree and commend in this text, on the one hand the protest of the father appears misplaced because the would be groom is not that young and more importantly, if they love each other, love finds a way and we can add here such clichés and déjà vu commentary, quotes and even poems…
Nonetheless, Old Shelestov is actually closer to the truth, in that John Gottman, the ultimate expert on marriage, author of the archetypal The Seven Secrets of Making Marriage Work http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/t... the one who has an accuracy rate of more than ninety percent, when estimating the chances that couples have of staying together or splitting, explains that we need to know very much about the partner and it looks like Nikitin and Masha do not learn enough about each other, given that at least the man becomes very disaffected with his marital status, sees himself as bored and in need of dramatic change – as for the latter part, change is indeed essential, as explained by another psychological phenomenon, called the Lasagna Effect by the Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar…he states that he loves his mother’s cooking, in particular her lasagna, but he would not eat it all day, every day and there is Stefan Klein making the same argument in his Science of Happiness…
There is also the theme of material wealth – and it is better to Be than to Have, as our late magician-professor Anton Chevorchian said it – and the impact it has on our happiness, or better said, it fails to have, once we become comfortable…Nikitin becomes rich, but he says in his diary “Where am I, my God…I am surrounded by vulgarity and vulgarity…Wearisome, insignificant people, pots of sour cream, jugs of milk, cockroaches, stupid women…There is nothing more terrible, mortifying, and distressing than vulgarity…I must escape from here, I must escape today, or I shall go out of my mind!”
December 3, 2024
When a 27 year-old literature teacher, having -so far- lived his life like a sheep, gets married to an 18 year old girl his first emotion is happiness. This happiness however quickly changes into a realization: what first seemed like the escape he always dreamed of, has turned out to be a new cage in which this time he will stay locked up for the rest of his life.
3/5
3/5
August 10, 2021
Thought provoking. Great for Russian language practice- especially on audio.
June 21, 2018
Почему-то вводят чеховские рассказцы, как "Учитель словесности" - в качестве обязательной литературы для среднего образованца, а, например, "Архиерея" - не припоминаю, чтобы кто-нибудь судачил о таковом в годы школьные.
А ведь "несерьёзный пустячок из жизни провинциальных морских свинок" (!), по словам автора, к окончанию первой самой главы. Тем не менее, произведеньице оказывается по нраву Льву Николаевичу и Ивану Алексеевичу (а также, в частности, сверяясь с комментариями, господам Леонтьеву-Щеглову и Плещееву) - и вот, "оно" в обязательном порядке втюхивается умам предположительно неокрепшим.
"Я имел в виду его кончить так, чтобы от моих героев мокрого места не осталось.." - и жаль, товарищи, премногого, чёрт возьми, сожаления достойно, что автор прочёл-таки наработки "нашим", а затем пошёл на поводу у оных и "пощадил".
Неглубоко копаю, конечно, но даже, простите, лопаты не брал, когда шёл сюда, а руками рыться в дорожной пыли, под которой щебёнка едва ли щебечет, а под ней чернозём, чернозём, чернозём - в сохранности хочется держать плодородную почву для исто аналитического ума, переписавшего "Гамбургскую драматургию" наново. А как иначе?
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Молодой учитель, которому претят разговоры о его молодости, влюблённый в младшую дочь некоего господина с довольно ветренной фамилией Шелестов, прозванную Марией Годфруа в связи лишь с её не столь давним увлечением представлениями приезжего цирка - будем считать её Актрисой Арены в перспективе; это ли не замечательная завязка для припозднившегося Такеши Китано?
Дальше, налицо два замечательных, колоритнейших персонажа: Митрополит Митрополитыч, как выразилась Варя, коий и в предсмертном бреду "го��орил только то, что всем известно" (к слову, возможно, неожиданно, но на скорую руку он ассоциируется с "Конформистом" в исполнении Трентиньяка), а также некто Шебалдин, "директор городского кредитного общества", благодаря которому и возникает отсылка к Лессингу.
На протяжении всякой весомой сцены можно ожидать внезапного возникновения в сознании Никитина вопроса Шебалдина "Вы изволили читать..?" - по сути, вопрос есть акт насилия, а потому Шебалдин вполне может выступать в качестве антагониста, ЕСЛИ Никитина расценивать его противоположностью, героем или жертвой, в данном случае, якобы навязываемого средой существования невежества - а по правде говоря, решений, за который наш молодой учитель не берёт на себя ответственности; и "..недаром она с гусаром", обращённые к Варе (единственному положительному энергетически персонажу - реальной жертве времени) из "исповедальни" слова Никитина - это не более, чем оценка им собственных намерений (Антон Павлович по ходу повествования таки вспоминает и о приданном Манюси и о том, что учителишка успевает и в карты по двенадцати рубликов проигрывать, "фуйкая" опосля).
Таким образом, заключение следует из вышесказанного таковое: единственными проявлениями "провинциальности морскосвинковой" в данном творении служат жизненные взгляды Никитина и Шебалдина (насколько мы можем судить из кратковременности участия последнего лично). "Розан" же спасается именно благодаря цирку, благодаря далёкой, автобиографической Годфруа, благодаря бригадному генералу, поздравлявшему "одну только Манюсю". Младшая дочь Шелестова - суть, Маша Кулыгина?
Парочка цитат: а) "..каркают вороны, и у моей Мани, которая только что уснула, почему-то грустное лицо"; б) "Тяжёлая злоба, точно холодный молоток, повернулась в его душе, и ему захотелось сказать Мане что-нибудь грубое и даже вскочить и ударить её." - расскажите мне, пожалуйста, после этого о "бунте Просвещения"! Честно признаю, самоубийство Никитина спасло бы его характер, но именно "пошлость и пошлость" сквозят в его убеждённости относительно окружения, Антон Павлович удерживает характер, лишая его надежды, ибо он не только продукт оных "пошлостей", а поскольку существуют они в сознании его и через него - Творец.
А ведь "несерьёзный пустячок из жизни провинциальных морских свинок" (!), по словам автора, к окончанию первой самой главы. Тем не менее, произведеньице оказывается по нраву Льву Николаевичу и Ивану Алексеевичу (а также, в частности, сверяясь с комментариями, господам Леонтьеву-Щеглову и Плещееву) - и вот, "оно" в обязательном порядке втюхивается умам предположительно неокрепшим.
"Я имел в виду его кончить так, чтобы от моих героев мокрого места не осталось.." - и жаль, товарищи, премногого, чёрт возьми, сожаления достойно, что автор прочёл-таки наработки "нашим", а затем пошёл на поводу у оных и "пощадил".
Неглубоко копаю, конечно, но даже, простите, лопаты не брал, когда шёл сюда, а руками рыться в дорожной пыли, под которой щебёнка едва ли щебечет, а под ней чернозём, чернозём, чернозём - в сохранности хочется держать плодородную почву для исто аналитического ума, переписавшего "Гамбургскую драматургию" наново. А как иначе?
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Молодой учитель, которому претят разговоры о его молодости, влюблённый в младшую дочь некоего господина с довольно ветренной фамилией Шелестов, прозванную Марией Годфруа в связи лишь с её не столь давним увлечением представлениями приезжего цирка - будем считать её Актрисой Арены в перспективе; это ли не замечательная завязка для припозднившегося Такеши Китано?
Дальше, налицо два замечательных, колоритнейших персонажа: Митрополит Митрополитыч, как выразилась Варя, коий и в предсмертном бреду "го��орил только то, что всем известно" (к слову, возможно, неожиданно, но на скорую руку он ассоциируется с "Конформистом" в исполнении Трентиньяка), а также некто Шебалдин, "директор городского кредитного общества", благодаря которому и возникает отсылка к Лессингу.
На протяжении всякой весомой сцены можно ожидать внезапного возникновения в сознании Никитина вопроса Шебалдина "Вы изволили читать..?" - по сути, вопрос есть акт насилия, а потому Шебалдин вполне может выступать в качестве антагониста, ЕСЛИ Никитина расценивать его противоположностью, героем или жертвой, в данном случае, якобы навязываемого средой существования невежества - а по правде говоря, решений, за который наш молодой учитель не берёт на себя ответственности; и "..недаром она с гусаром", обращённые к Варе (единственному положительному энергетически персонажу - реальной жертве времени) из "исповедальни" слова Никитина - это не более, чем оценка им собственных намерений (Антон Павлович по ходу повествования таки вспоминает и о приданном Манюси и о том, что учителишка успевает и в карты по двенадцати рубликов проигрывать, "фуйкая" опосля).
Таким образом, заключение следует из вышесказанного таковое: единственными проявлениями "провинциальности морскосвинковой" в данном творении служат жизненные взгляды Никитина и Шебалдина (насколько мы можем судить из кратковременности участия последнего лично). "Розан" же спасается именно благодаря цирку, благодаря далёкой, автобиографической Годфруа, благодаря бригадному генералу, поздравлявшему "одну только Манюсю". Младшая дочь Шелестова - суть, Маша Кулыгина?
Парочка цитат: а) "..каркают вороны, и у моей Мани, которая только что уснула, почему-то грустное лицо"; б) "Тяжёлая злоба, точно холодный молоток, повернулась в его душе, и ему захотелось сказать Мане что-нибудь грубое и даже вскочить и ударить её." - расскажите мне, пожалуйста, после этого о "бунте Просвещения"! Честно признаю, самоубийство Никитина спасло бы его характер, но именно "пошлость и пошлость" сквозят в его убеждённости относительно окружения, Антон Павлович удерживает характер, лишая его надежды, ибо он не только продукт оных "пошлостей", а поскольку существуют они в сознании его и через него - Творец.
March 27, 2021
Sadəcə bir hissə:
...Birdən-birə onun ürəyində həmin özgə aləmədşemək arzusu ehtiraslı şəkildə baş qaldırdı; hansısa zavodda, yaxud böyük bir emalatxanada işləmək, kafedrada dayanıb danışmaq, şeir yazmaq, əsərlərini çap eləmək, səs-küy salmaq, yorulmaq, əzab çəkmək istəyirdi. Elə bir iş axtarırdı ki, onu özünü unudacaq, öz səadətinə laqeyd qalacaq dərəcədə ağuşuna alsın...
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...lakin elə həmin anda daxili bir inamla özünə sübut edirdi ki, o müəllim deyil, gimnaziyanin yunan dili müəllimi olan istedadsız, simasız çex kimi adicə bir məmurdur: heç vaxt onda müəllimliyə maraq olmayıb, pedaqokiya ilə tanış deyil, uşaqlarla rəftar edə bilmir, tədris etdiyi fənnin əhəmiyyəti ona heç vaxt aydın olmayıb..Nikitin (qəhrəman) öz kütlüyünü hamıdan gizləyməyi və hamını aldatmağı bacarıb, özünü elə göstərir ki, hər şey qaydasındadı.. Bu fikirlər Nikitini qorxutdu, amma inandı ki, hamısı əsəbdəndir, tezliklə düzələcək.
Doğurdan da səhərə yaxın o artıq əsəbiliyinə gülürdü, lakin o da Nikitinə aydın idi ki, daha sakitliyini həmişəlik itirib, onun üçün artıq bu evdə xoşbəxtlik deyilən şey yoxdur. O artıq başa düşürdü ki, artıq illuziya başa çatıb, sakitlik və şəxsi səadətlə bir araya sığmayan yeni, əsəbi, şüurlu həyat başlayıb...
...Birdən-birə onun ürəyində həmin özgə aləmədşemək arzusu ehtiraslı şəkildə baş qaldırdı; hansısa zavodda, yaxud böyük bir emalatxanada işləmək, kafedrada dayanıb danışmaq, şeir yazmaq, əsərlərini çap eləmək, səs-küy salmaq, yorulmaq, əzab çəkmək istəyirdi. Elə bir iş axtarırdı ki, onu özünü unudacaq, öz səadətinə laqeyd qalacaq dərəcədə ağuşuna alsın...
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...lakin elə həmin anda daxili bir inamla özünə sübut edirdi ki, o müəllim deyil, gimnaziyanin yunan dili müəllimi olan istedadsız, simasız çex kimi adicə bir məmurdur: heç vaxt onda müəllimliyə maraq olmayıb, pedaqokiya ilə tanış deyil, uşaqlarla rəftar edə bilmir, tədris etdiyi fənnin əhəmiyyəti ona heç vaxt aydın olmayıb..Nikitin (qəhrəman) öz kütlüyünü hamıdan gizləyməyi və hamını aldatmağı bacarıb, özünü elə göstərir ki, hər şey qaydasındadı.. Bu fikirlər Nikitini qorxutdu, amma inandı ki, hamısı əsəbdəndir, tezliklə düzələcək.
Doğurdan da səhərə yaxın o artıq əsəbiliyinə gülürdü, lakin o da Nikitinə aydın idi ki, daha sakitliyini həmişəlik itirib, onun üçün artıq bu evdə xoşbəxtlik deyilən şey yoxdur. O artıq başa düşürdü ki, artıq illuziya başa çatıb, sakitlik və şəxsi səadətlə bir araya sığmayan yeni, əsəbi, şüurlu həyat başlayıb...
January 28, 2025
Desde mi punto de vista es una novela que retrata la época. Aborda temas que mas inquietaba como es la cuestión de tener una profesión y una familia. Así mismo logra retratar el ambiente y contexto de una manera agradable donde mejor inmersión pero, definitivamente la historia en sí no se me hace buena. En mi opinión no me atrapó
August 10, 2022
Мещанство – отстой!
January 10, 2025
I dont think i got the purpose of this book
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May 17, 2025uh oh. Midlife crisis-
December 25, 2025
Rating: 3,2 / 5
January 22, 2024
Чем больше читаю/слушаю Чехова, тем больше понимаю, насколько он тонко и красива описывает человеческие переживания и чувствует своих персонажей (которые списаны с реальных людей). Да, это могут быть непростые люди, среднего и высшего достатка, но он хорошо говорит, что волнение в душе, когда они начались, когда начал задавать вопросы себе - они уже никуда не уйдут.
И это чувство, оно просыпается у людей вне зависимости от социального статуса.
Ну и как не упомянуть точные слова тут,
«Нет ничего страшнее, оскорбительнее, тоскливее пошлости.»
И это чувство, оно просыпается у людей вне зависимости от социального статуса.
Ну и как не упомянуть точные слова тут,
«Нет ничего страшнее, оскорбительнее, тоскливее пошлости.»
June 26, 2021
All the banality of an insipid long novel condensed into a short story. But that's the point, I guess.
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