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Geroj povesti, polunischij sapozhnik, p'yanymi vyhodkami mstyaschij obschestvu sytyh za obidy i unizheniya, kruto menyaetsya, ohvachennyj atmosferoj obschestvennogo pod'ema. Probudivsheesya chuvstvo chelovecheskogo dostoinstva, grazhdanskaya aktivnost' vozvyshayut nravstvennoe samochuvstvie, oblagorazhivayut obraz zhizni Uklejkina. Trezvo otsenivaya itogi pervoj revolyutsii, Sh. pokazyvaet neizbezhnoe krushenie smutnyh, no strastnyh i radostnyh upovanij geroya na skoruyu peremenu nespravedlivogo stroya zhizni, razoblachaet lzhivuyu igru pravyaschih verhov v demokratiyu. Etoj povest'yu Sh. na materiale sovremennoj emu dejstvitel'nosti talantlivo prodolzhil odnu iz korennyh tem russkoj literatury, iduschuyu ot A. S. Pushkina, N. V. Gogolya, F. M. Dostoevskogo, - temu "malen'kogo cheloveka."
84 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 2013
About the author
Ivan Shmelyov
68 books11 followers Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв
Russian émigré writer, member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
Shmelev was born into a merchant family. He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University in 1898. His works first appeared in print in 1895. Shmelev’s best prerevolutionary prose works showed a profound knowledge of city life and popular language; they employed the narrative technique of oral folktales. The novellas Collapse (1907), Citizen Ukleikin (1908), and The Man From the Restaurant (1911), which was the most significant of the three, were written in the traditional style of critical realism.
Shmelev emigrated in 1922 and later published anti-Soviet stories and books filled with nostalgia for the prerevolutionary past, for example, The Lord’s Summer (1933).
Russian émigré writer, member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
Shmelev was born into a merchant family. He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University in 1898. His works first appeared in print in 1895. Shmelev’s best prerevolutionary prose works showed a profound knowledge of city life and popular language; they employed the narrative technique of oral folktales. The novellas Collapse (1907), Citizen Ukleikin (1908), and The Man From the Restaurant (1911), which was the most significant of the three, were written in the traditional style of critical realism.
Shmelev emigrated in 1922 and later published anti-Soviet stories and books filled with nostalgia for the prerevolutionary past, for example, The Lord’s Summer (1933).
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