"The hero of our time" is read in one breath. The life of the Officer of the Tsarist Army Grigory Pechorin is fond of events, seasoned with mental tensions of the character. The author created an image of an "excess person" in a society that does not know which course to send energy and vitality.
History of creation
The unusual of the novel "Hero of our time" is that he opened a list of psychological works in Russian literature. Mikhail Lermontov spent three years on the work - the story of a representative of the new generation was born from 1838 to 1940.
The idea arose from a writer in the Caucasian link. The time of the Nikolaev reaction reigned, when, after the depressed Decembrist uprising, the intelligent youth was lost in search of the meaning of life, destinations, ways to apply their abilities for the benefit of Fatherland. Hence the name of the novel. Plus, Lermontov was an officer of the Russian army, passed the military paths of the Caucasus and managed to closely get acquainted with the life and nuts of the local population. The unconscious character of Grigory Pecherin revealed away from the homeland, surrounded by Chechens, Ossetians and Circassians.
The work went to the reader in the form of individual chapters in the journal "Domestic Notes". Seeing the popularity of his literary labor, Mikhail Yuryevich decided to unite parts into a whole novel, which was printed in two volumes in 1840.
Five stakes with their own names are a composition where the chronological order is broken. At first Pechorin presents the readers officer of the royal army, a close friend and head of Maxim Maximych, and only then the opportunity "personally" appears with the mental experiences of the main character through his diaries.
According to the writers, Lermontov, when creating an image of a character, relied on the famous hero of his idol -. The surname of the great poet borrowed from a calm Ogega River, and Mikhail Yuryevich called the hero in honor of the turbulent mountain Pechora. And in general, it is believed that Pechorin is "Advanced" version of Onegin. In the search for prototypes, the writers stumbled upon a list in the manuscript of Lermontov - in one place the author mistakenly called his character Eugene.
Biography and plot
Gregory Pechorin has been born and grew up in St. Petersburg. In his youth, she quickly threw a tedious training for sciences and hit a secular life with kits and women. However, it quickly bored. Then the hero decided to give the debt to Fatherland, going to serve in the army. For participation in the duel of a young man, a present service was punished, sewan in the Caucasus in the existing troops is the starting point of the narrative of the work.
In the first chapter, called "Bal", Maxim Maksimach tells the story of the story with an unknown listener, who discovered the nature of the egoist in him. A young officer managed even in the war to get bored - the whistle was used to the whistle, and the deaf village in the mountains brought melancholy. With the help of the Circassian Prince, a korestolevoyy and unbalanced Azamat, he stole her horse at first, and then the daughter of the local prince Balu. The feelings for the young person quickly cooled, giving way to indifference. The thoughtless actions of the Russian officer led to a series of dramatic events, including the killing of the girl and her father.
The head "Taman" transfers the reader to pre-Armenian events, when Pechorin meets with a grouping of smugglers, falsely accepting its members for people acting in the name of something great and valuable. But the hero was waiting for disappointment. In addition, Grigory comes to the conclusion that he brings the surrounding one unfortunately, and sent to Pyatigorsk to therapeutic waters.
Here, Pechorin intersects with the past beloved faith, still nourishing gentle feelings, a friend of Junker of the Grushnitsky and Prince Mary Ligovskaya. Calm life again did not ask: Grigory conquered the heart of the princes, but refused to the girl, and then because of the quarrel fought on a duel with Pereshnitsky. For the murder of Juncker, a young man was in the link again, but now it is put to serve in the fortress, where it happened to acquaintance with Maxim Maxim.
In the last chapter of the Roman "Fatalist" Lermontov placed the hero in the Cossack Stanza, where a conversation about the fate and predestination is in charge of the game between participants. Men were divided into two camps - alone believe in the presenter of events of life, others denied this theory. In the controversy with the guarantor, Spirit, Pechorin said that he sees an imprint of a close death on the face of the opponent. He tried to prove his invulnerability with the help of "Russian roulette", and indeed - the gun gave a misfire. However, at the same evening, Vulich died from the hands of the Cossack who revealed.
Form
The hero of its time is not able to find the scope of the use of vast young energy. Forces are spent on minor little things and heart dramas, no on any other society receives benefits. Personal tragedy, which is doomed to inertness and loneliness, is the ideological core of Roman Lermontov. The author explains:
"... precisely portrait, but not one person: this is a portrait made up of the vices of all our generation, in their full development."
Gregory from youth exists "Curiosity for the sake of" and admits: "I have long lived not with a heart, but my head." The "Cold Mind" pushes a character to actions, from which everyone is only bad. He interferes into smugglers in the affairs, plays the feelings of Bals and Faith, Mstit. All this brings solid disappointment and spiritual empty. He despises the highest society in which he was born and grew, but it was his idol after the victory in a duel over the pear-free. And such a turn of events is further expanding Grigory.
The characteristic of the appearance of Pechorin transmits its internal qualities. Mikhail Yuryevich drew an aristocrat with pale leather and thin fingers. When walking, the hero does not swing his hands, which speaks of a closed nature, and during laughter the eyes are deprived of a cheerful spark - this author tried to convey the character inclined to analyze and dramatism. Moreover, even the age of Gregory Aleksandrovich is not clear: he looks at 26, and in fact the hero celebrated his 30th birthday.
Shielding
The star "Hero of our time" lit in the cinema in 1927 - the director Vladimir Barsky took the trilogy of black and white silent films, where the actor Nikolai Prozorovsky was performed in the role of Pechorin.
Once again, the work of Lermontov was remembered in 1955: Isidore Annene presented to the audience to the audience "Princess Mary", in which the image of anatoly young man Anatoly Verbitsky was born.
10 years later, in the image of Pechorin appeared. All these paintings did not receive confessions from critics, who considered that the producers did not sufficiently revealed the character of the Lermontic character.
And the following shields were successful. This is a TV link in 1975 "Page of Pechorin magazine" (in the lead role) and the 2006 series of the production of "Hero of our time" ().
Grigory Pechorin also appears in the unfinished novel Lermontov "Princess Ligovskaya", but here the hero is not St. Petersburg, but Muscovite.
The scenario for the series, published on television screens in 2006, wrote Irakli Kvirikadze. The work is close to the textbook primary source, but the main difference is the chronology of actions. That is, chapters are rearranged in places. The picture begins with the events described by the classic literature in Parts "Taman", the head of Knyazhna Mary is coming.
Quotes
"Of the two friends are always one slave of the other, although often none of them is not recognized in this. I am stupid created: I do not forget anything - nothing! "
"Women love only those who do not know."
"What started an unusual way, then it should also end."
"It is necessary to give justice to women: they have the instinct of beauty of spiritual."
"To be for someone's reasons for suffering and joys, without having no positive right, is it the sweet food of our pride? What is happiness? Saturated pride.
"Such was my fate from childhood. Everyone was read on my face signs of bad feelings that were not; But they were assumed - and they were born. I was modest - I was accused of a villain: I became secret. I deeply felt good and evil; No one caressed me, everyone was insulted: I became malpamyen; I was a sullen - other children of cheerful and boltles; I felt above them, - I was put below. I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world, - no one understood me: and I learned to hate. My colorless youth proceeded in the fight against him and light. "
"My love did not bring happiness to anyone, because I did not sacrificed anything for those who loved."
"Tomorrow she wants to reward me. I already know all this by heart - that's what is bored! "