Idiot PART FOUR
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passed a week after the meeting of two persons of our story on a green bench. In one bright morning, about half-past ten, Barbara Ardalionovna Ptitsyn, came out to visit from the Khoi-one of his friends, returned home to a great and sad reverie.
There are people about whom it is difficult to say something that would represent them at once and entirely, in their the most typical and characteristic form, these are the people who usually call people "ordinary", the "majority" and who, indeed, The vast majority of any society.
writers in his novels and stories for the most part trying to take the types of society and present them literally and artistically - types, it is extremely rare in reality entirely and which, nevertheless post is really very true. PODKOLYOSIN in its typical form, maybe even an exaggeration, but not a fantastic story. What a lot of smart people learn from Gogol about Podkolyosin, immediately began to find that hundreds of their good friends and acquaintances awfully similar to Podkolyosin. They have until Gogol knew that these friends of like Podkolesin, but do not yet know what exactly they are called. In fact, young men terribly rare jump from the windows before their weddings, because it is, not to mention уже о прочем, даже и неудобно; тем не менее сколько женихов, даже людей достойных и умных, пред венцом сами себя в глубине совести готовы были признать Подколесиными. Not all husbands, too, screaming at every turn: "Tu l'as voulu, George Dandin!". 1 But, gosh, how many millions and billions of times repeated husbands whole world, this heart cry after their honeymoon, and who knows, maybe the next day after the wedding.
1 "Is this what you wanted, Georges Dandin!" (French).
So, without going into more serious explanation, we will say only that in fact is typical of persons as it is diluted with water and all those Georges Dandin and PODKOLYOSIN there really scurry and run out before us on a daily basis, but as if in a somewhat diluted state. I'll note finally that, for the fullness of truth, that the whole George Dandin whole How do I create Moliere, too, can meet in reality, though rare, so we conclude our argument, which is starting to become similar to magazine criticism. Yet still before us the question remains: what to do with the novelist ordinary people, quite "ordinary" and how to expose them before the reader, to make them more or less interesting? Completely bypass them in the story can not be, because ordinary people are kept in большинстве необходимое звено в связи житейских событий; миновав их, стало быть, нарушим правдоподобие. Наполнять романы одними типами или даже просто, для interest, people strange and unseen would improbably, yes, perhaps even boring. In our opinion, the writer must try to find interesting and instructive shades, even among the ordinary. When, for example, is the essence of some ordinary people it is their invariable and unchangeable ordinary, or, even better, when, despite all the extraordinary efforts of these individuals to go into whatever became of the rut of the ordinary and routine, they still end up, that remains unchanged and only ever with one routine, then such a person even receive some kind, and typicality - how ordinary, which for no reason not want to stay because it is, and by all means wants to be original and independently, without the slightest means of self-sufficiency.
K that a group of "ordinary" or "ordinary" people belong to and some people in our story, until now (I admit that) spelled out a little reader. These are precisely Barbara Ardalionovna Ptitsyn, her husband, Mr. Ptitsyn, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, her brother.
In fact, it is not annoying to do, For example, wealthy, respectable family, decent looking, fairly well educated, intelligent, even good, and at the same time have no talent, no particular, no even eccentricities, none of his own ideas, be decisively "as everyone else." Wealth is, but not Rotshildovo; surname honest, but does not itself have never marked the, decent appearance, but very few express, decent education, but do not know what to use it, the mind is, but not their ideas, the heart is, but without the generosity, etc., etc. in all respects. Such people in the world of emergency set, and even more than it seems; they are divided, like all people, into two main categories: one limited, while others "are much more intelligent." First happier. Limited "ordinary" No man, for example, nothing is easier than to imagine himself a man of unusual and original and delight so without hesitation. Worth some of our young ladies to cut their hair and wear blue glasses, and he named nihilist to immediately verify that, wearing glasses, they immediately began to have свои собственные "убеждения". Стоило иному только капельку почувствовать в сердце своем что-нибудь из какого-нибудь общечеловеческого и доброго ощущения, to immediately make sure that no one really does not feel like it, that he advanced in the overall development. Worth another word for to take any thought or read page of something with no beginning and no end to immediately believe that it is "their own thoughts and in his own brain originated. Audacity of naivete, so to speak, in such cases comes to wonder, all this is incredible, but occurs every minute. This audacity of naivete, this nesomnevaemost foolish man in himself and in his talent, perfectly exposed Gogol, in a surprising type of Lieutenant Pirogov. Pies do not even doubt that he genius, even higher than any genius, before no doubt that even the question yourself about it never sets, however, the question for him and did not exist. The great writer was forced to finally carve to meet offended moral sense to your reader, but seeing that the great man only shook and to support forces after the torture of eating puff, threw up his hands in wonder, and so left his readers. I have always grieved that a great Pirogov taken Strutted in such a small reason, because Pirogov before samoudovletvorim that he is nothing easier than to imagine themselves as tolsteyuschih and spinning on it over the years and through the "epaulettes, emergency, such as commander, did not even imagine, but just no doubt about it: made a general, as well no military leader? And how many of them do then the terrible debacle on the battlefield? And how many Pirogovy between the two writers, scientists, extension workers? I say "was", but, of course, there are now ...
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