Nikolay Semenovich Leskov, yarkiy i samobytnyy pisatelʹ, nastoyashchiy volshebnik slova, prishel v literaturu dovolʹno pozdno i, po yego sobstvennomu priznaniyu, "sluchayno". Po sluzhebnoy nadobnosti on izʺyezdil vsyu Rossiyu i sumel sobratʹ nastoyashchuyu kollektsiyu kharakterov i obrazov, otyskatʹ unikalʹnyye syuzhety i tipazhi, sozdatʹ polnotsvetnuyu kartinu Russkoy zemli so vsem, chto v ney yestʹ durnogo i khoroshego. V nepovtorimo zhivoy skazovoy manere Leskov izobrazhayet obychnogo cheloveka s yego radostyami i bedami, dostoinstvami i izʺyanami, pozvolyaya geroyu samomu delitʹsya svoimi istoriyami i zastavlyaya chitatelya iskrenne veritʹ yemu i soperezhivatʹ. M.Gorʹkiy nazyval prozu Leskova "odukhotvorennoy pesnʹyu", gde "prostyye, chisto velikorusskiye slova, snizy-vayasʹ odno s drugim v zateylivyye stroki, to zadumchivo, to smeshlivo zvonki, i vsegda v nikh slyshna trepetnaya lyubovʹ k lyudyam". V nastoyashcheye izdaniye voshli takiye izvestnyye rasskazy, kak "Tupeynyy khudozhnik", "Odnodum", "Staryy geniy", "Khristos v gostyakh u muzhika" i drugiye.Please ask if you need a specific version. The data provided here may not be correct. With buying and not asking you are accepting the book as is.