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The Storm
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104 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1859
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Aleksandr Ostrovsky
236 books49 followersAlexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period
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March 15, 2025
One more Emma Bovary on the banks of the Volga?
A little grave under a tree ... how sweet.... The sunshine warms it, the sweet rain falls on it ... in the spring the grass grows on it, soft and sweet grass ... the birds will fly in the tree and sing, and bring up their little ones, and flowers will bloom; golden, red and blue ... all sorts of flowers, (dreamily) all sorts of flowers ... how still! how sweet! My heart's as it were lighter!
While discussing Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, my friend Katia was so kind to bring a Russian play to my attention addressing related issues, Alexandr Ostrovsky’s The storm (also known as The Thunderstorm,1859). Just like many will be familiar with Nikolai Leskov’s short story via Shostakovich’s eponymous opera, I found myself cognizant of the plot of Ostrovsky’s play in a different package, namely the opera Leoš Janáček composed under the title of the name of the play’s central character, Katya Kabanova, which I attended in a staging by Robert Carsen in the Flemish opera back in 2004.
Alexandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was a playwright and director, closely connected to the Maly theatre in Moscow. His plays epitomize the matching part in drama of the great realist novel in the second half of the 19th century in Russia. While unlike Chekhov’s plays, Ostrovsky’s plays are little known outside of Russia as difficult to translate truthfully, to this day many of his about fifty plays, comedies and tragedies which are often set in a peasant, petty bourgeois or middle class merchant milieu are still frequently performed in Russia.
Like Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Ostrovsky’s The Storm is an utterly dark and bleak story, which entices contemplating the place of women and the individual in Russian society in the 19th century, the storm of the title reflecting the weather, the inner tensions of the central figure and the intergenerational tensions within family and society. Infidelity is the social transgression through which lens we will witness the acts, emotions and predicament of an offender of social norms in a stifling, oppressive environment, in both cases from a woman’s perspective. The parallels between both tragedies are striking; both Leskov’s Katerina Lvovna and Ostrovsky’s Katerina Kabanova will pay a ghastly price, torn between their desire for freedom and love and their conscience, crushed in the end by their sweltering sense of guilt. That their destiny despite their differences in character and in their acts will turn out quite similar (and is in tune with the common treatment of the 19th century literary (anti)heroine who breaks the rules or digresses from the norms of their social milieu) illustrates the zeitgeist doesn't allow a different outcome yet, regardless of their distinctive individuality and attempts of protest. In the person of Varvara, Katerina Kabanova young sister-in-law, Ostrovsky suggests this will be different for the younger generation however, a sparkle of hope where relationships seems stifled by obscure conservative morals.
Both Katerina’s are passionate, intense women bound in a loveless marriage. Both belong to the merchant class and are confined to domestic life, kept in check by a parent-in-law when the husband is absent. While Katerina Lvovna will commit hideous crimes following the adultery she gets caught up in a state of mind of sheer boredom, Katerina Kabanova is a dreamy, sensitive soul who has internalized the cage she yearns to escape, a cage built from mystic religious beliefs and traditions from which she cannot free herself (nor could her weak lover Boris).
In De Russische leeslijst: Essays over de klassieke Russische literatuur Alexandr Genis and Pjotr Vajljl draw a quite fascinating comparison between The storm and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary(the scandal and legal procedure surrounding Flaubert’s novel was reported in the Russian papers and the novel which got translated into Russian in 1858 made a big impression in Russia). They showcase how The storm mirrors Madame Bovary in many aspects, structurally as well as in character types (the despotic and hostile mothers-in-law, the feeble and docile husbands, the helpless lovers, the asides formulated by the adepts of science) and even imagery (birds, visions of hell). They propagate the thesis that Ostrovsky polemicizes against Flaubert’s novel and that his play in this respect can be situated in the ongoing discussion between Westerners and Slavophiles. By making his Katerina an emblem of the unfathomably profound lyrical Russian soul, Ostrovksy contrasts her exalted state of mind and her irrationalism with the ennui of Emma and the money-driven world of Madame Bovary in which Emma eventually perishes in the banality of debts.
Katerina’s infatuation (awakening pretty abruptly in the play), her fatalism, her acute emotionality and sense of doom might come across as rather perplexing at present times, nevertheless her elated poetic observations, wistfulness, longing for love and freedom and suffering are still likely to strike a chord.
And what dreams I used to have, dear Varia, what lovely dreams! Golden temples or gardens of some wonderful sort, and voices of unseen spirits singing, and the sweet scent of cypress and mountains and trees, not such as we always see, but as they are painted in the holy pictures. And sometimes I seemed to be flying, simply flying in the air. I dream sometimes now, but not often, and never dreams like those.
The play can be read here.
(***½)
A little grave under a tree ... how sweet.... The sunshine warms it, the sweet rain falls on it ... in the spring the grass grows on it, soft and sweet grass ... the birds will fly in the tree and sing, and bring up their little ones, and flowers will bloom; golden, red and blue ... all sorts of flowers, (dreamily) all sorts of flowers ... how still! how sweet! My heart's as it were lighter!
While discussing Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, my friend Katia was so kind to bring a Russian play to my attention addressing related issues, Alexandr Ostrovsky’s The storm (also known as The Thunderstorm,1859). Just like many will be familiar with Nikolai Leskov’s short story via Shostakovich’s eponymous opera, I found myself cognizant of the plot of Ostrovsky’s play in a different package, namely the opera Leoš Janáček composed under the title of the name of the play’s central character, Katya Kabanova, which I attended in a staging by Robert Carsen in the Flemish opera back in 2004.
Alexandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was a playwright and director, closely connected to the Maly theatre in Moscow. His plays epitomize the matching part in drama of the great realist novel in the second half of the 19th century in Russia. While unlike Chekhov’s plays, Ostrovsky’s plays are little known outside of Russia as difficult to translate truthfully, to this day many of his about fifty plays, comedies and tragedies which are often set in a peasant, petty bourgeois or middle class merchant milieu are still frequently performed in Russia.
Like Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Ostrovsky’s The Storm is an utterly dark and bleak story, which entices contemplating the place of women and the individual in Russian society in the 19th century, the storm of the title reflecting the weather, the inner tensions of the central figure and the intergenerational tensions within family and society. Infidelity is the social transgression through which lens we will witness the acts, emotions and predicament of an offender of social norms in a stifling, oppressive environment, in both cases from a woman’s perspective. The parallels between both tragedies are striking; both Leskov’s Katerina Lvovna and Ostrovsky’s Katerina Kabanova will pay a ghastly price, torn between their desire for freedom and love and their conscience, crushed in the end by their sweltering sense of guilt. That their destiny despite their differences in character and in their acts will turn out quite similar (and is in tune with the common treatment of the 19th century literary (anti)heroine who breaks the rules or digresses from the norms of their social milieu) illustrates the zeitgeist doesn't allow a different outcome yet, regardless of their distinctive individuality and attempts of protest. In the person of Varvara, Katerina Kabanova young sister-in-law, Ostrovsky suggests this will be different for the younger generation however, a sparkle of hope where relationships seems stifled by obscure conservative morals.
Both Katerina’s are passionate, intense women bound in a loveless marriage. Both belong to the merchant class and are confined to domestic life, kept in check by a parent-in-law when the husband is absent. While Katerina Lvovna will commit hideous crimes following the adultery she gets caught up in a state of mind of sheer boredom, Katerina Kabanova is a dreamy, sensitive soul who has internalized the cage she yearns to escape, a cage built from mystic religious beliefs and traditions from which she cannot free herself (nor could her weak lover Boris).
In De Russische leeslijst: Essays over de klassieke Russische literatuur Alexandr Genis and Pjotr Vajljl draw a quite fascinating comparison between The storm and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary(the scandal and legal procedure surrounding Flaubert’s novel was reported in the Russian papers and the novel which got translated into Russian in 1858 made a big impression in Russia). They showcase how The storm mirrors Madame Bovary in many aspects, structurally as well as in character types (the despotic and hostile mothers-in-law, the feeble and docile husbands, the helpless lovers, the asides formulated by the adepts of science) and even imagery (birds, visions of hell). They propagate the thesis that Ostrovsky polemicizes against Flaubert’s novel and that his play in this respect can be situated in the ongoing discussion between Westerners and Slavophiles. By making his Katerina an emblem of the unfathomably profound lyrical Russian soul, Ostrovksy contrasts her exalted state of mind and her irrationalism with the ennui of Emma and the money-driven world of Madame Bovary in which Emma eventually perishes in the banality of debts.
Katerina’s infatuation (awakening pretty abruptly in the play), her fatalism, her acute emotionality and sense of doom might come across as rather perplexing at present times, nevertheless her elated poetic observations, wistfulness, longing for love and freedom and suffering are still likely to strike a chord.
And what dreams I used to have, dear Varia, what lovely dreams! Golden temples or gardens of some wonderful sort, and voices of unseen spirits singing, and the sweet scent of cypress and mountains and trees, not such as we always see, but as they are painted in the holy pictures. And sometimes I seemed to be flying, simply flying in the air. I dream sometimes now, but not often, and never dreams like those.
The play can be read here.
(***½)
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December 19, 2024вот че девки бывает если выйти замуж за тюбика
April 27, 2012
a social melodrama and a tragic love story….
Katrina, married to a mama’s boy Tikhon–(I wander they existed in the seventeenth century it seems that they were always there)
KABANOVA ( the worst mother-in-law ever )destroyed their relationship.drive her at the end to commit suicide to escape her miserable and unbearable life….
Katrina has alove affair with Boris, a young man ,his uncle, controls his inheritance.....
she confess committing adultery to her husband infront of his mother
her feeling of guilt and despair poison her life and make her put an end to it…
one of the scene before her husband leaves ...
MME. KABANOVA.
Why are you standing about? Don't you know the way to do things? Lay your
commands upon your wife, exhort her how she is to live in your absence.
_Katerina looks on the ground
KABANOV.
But she knows quite well without that.
MME. KABANOVA.
The way you talk! Come, come, give your commands, that I may hear what
commands you lay upon her! And then when you come back, you can ask if she
has performed everything exactly.
KABANOV (_standing opposite Katerina_).
Obey mamma, Katia.
MME. KABANOVA.
Tell her not to be saucy to her mother-in-law.
Don't be saucy!
MME. KABANOVA.
To revere her mother-in-law as her own mother.
KABANOV.
Revere mamma, Katia, as your own mother.
MME. KABANOVA.
Not to sit with her hands in her lap like a fine lady.
KABANOV.
Do some work while I am away!
MME. KABANOVA.
Not to go staring out of window!
KABANOV.
But, mamma, whenever has she....
MME. KABANOVA.
Come, come!
KABANOV.
Don't look out of window!
MME. KABANOVA.
Not to stare at young fellows while you are away!
KABANOV.
But that is too much, mamma, for mercy's sake!
MME. KABANOVA (_severely_).
Enough of this nonsense! It's your duty to do what your mother tells you.
KABANOV.
Good-bye, Katia! [_Katerina falls on his neck_
MME. KABANOVA.
What do you want to hang on his neck like that for, shameless hussy! It's
not a lover you're parting from! He's your husband--your head! Don't you
know how to behave? Bow down at his feet! [_Katerina bows down to his
feet_.
After katia committed suicide…..
,
Here is your Katerina. You may do what you like with her. Her body is
here, take it; but her soul is not yours now; she is before a Judge more
merciful than you are, now!
MME. KABANOVA.
Hush! It's a sin even to weep for her!
KABANOV.
Mother, you have murdered her! you! you! you!
May 11, 2024
11.05.22
Сегодня идем в театр на Грозу! Быстренько перечитала 😅
22.11.22
1859 год, а до чего же актуально! Не помню, читали ли мы эту пьесу в школе (кажется да), но теперь я убеждена, что эта книга не подходит для чтения в том возрасте. Сейчас же строки обрели для меня иронию, эмоции, раскрыли характер персонажей и поделились своей историей.
Сегодня идем в театр на Грозу! Быстренько перечитала 😅
22.11.22
1859 год, а до чего же актуально! Не помню, читали ли мы эту пьесу в школе (кажется да), но теперь я убеждена, что эта книга не подходит для чтения в том возрасте. Сейчас же строки обрели для меня иронию, эмоции, раскрыли характер персонажей и поделились своей историей.
March 21, 2017
Another whim to satisfy a task in this season's challenge, though I had not heard of it before. I rarely do that, finding more books than I can read that I already have on my shelves. I knew nothing about it beforehand. (I did not even realize it is a play, which I rarely read!) But I was intrigued, and I'm not sorry to have picked this up.
It has an introduction, which was very helpful. It is a revelation of the old-fashioned Muscovite life from the inside, and Ostrovsky thereby brings us in closer relation to that primitive life than was in the power of Tolstoi or Goncharov, or even Gogol to bring us. And continues:
I've liked most of the Russian lit I've picked up. This broadened by experience with it. I prefer prose and can't give this more than 4 stars, but it was well worth the very few hours I spent with it.
It has an introduction, which was very helpful. It is a revelation of the old-fashioned Muscovite life from the inside, and Ostrovsky thereby brings us in closer relation to that primitive life than was in the power of Tolstoi or Goncharov, or even Gogol to bring us. And continues:
And here is Ostrovsky's peculiar merit, that he has in his various dramas penetrated deeper than any other of the great Russian authors into one of the most fundamental qualities of the Russian nature—its innate tendency to arbitrary power, oppression, despotism. Nobody has drawn so powerfully, so truly, so incisively as he, the type of the 'samodour' or 'bully,' a type that plays a leading part in every strata of Russian life.And, oh my, what a bully is the mother-in-law! She bullies not just her son's wife, but her son as well. If it weren't so pathetic, it would almost be funny the way she has her thumb on the household.
I've liked most of the Russian lit I've picked up. This broadened by experience with it. I prefer prose and can't give this more than 4 stars, but it was well worth the very few hours I spent with it.
July 13, 2014
I think this would be wonderful to watch.
And actually, I am confused that it hasn't yet been adapted by Hollywood - it is clean in its presentation. I can almost feel a film student in LA picking it up and getting excited: THIS IS HOW I CAN MAKE MY MILLIONS. With Keira Knightley as Katya, of course. Maybe Judi Dench as Kabanikha. Tikhon...hmm. You know, I think Alexander Skarsgard could pull him off, based on the versatility he showed in What Maisie Knew.
Where was I.
Okay. You can also feel the Bard behind this play, sense Ostrovsky playing with how Shakespeare's works were constructed.
What if the most significant violence we can do to each other is in what we don't do - ie, forgive, hold a hand, etc?
ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Y49.... (Or, Tchaikovsky's The Storm, Op. 76 (Overture in E Minor)
And actually, I am confused that it hasn't yet been adapted by Hollywood - it is clean in its presentation. I can almost feel a film student in LA picking it up and getting excited: THIS IS HOW I CAN MAKE MY MILLIONS. With Keira Knightley as Katya, of course. Maybe Judi Dench as Kabanikha. Tikhon...hmm. You know, I think Alexander Skarsgard could pull him off, based on the versatility he showed in What Maisie Knew.
Where was I.
Okay. You can also feel the Bard behind this play, sense Ostrovsky playing with how Shakespeare's works were constructed.
What if the most significant violence we can do to each other is in what we don't do - ie, forgive, hold a hand, etc?
ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Y49.... (Or, Tchaikovsky's The Storm, Op. 76 (Overture in E Minor)
October 15, 2019
3.5.
after my last update, this actually got pretty good. i might end up rounding it to four stars in the future but i disliked the first half of it so much i might not.
after my last update, this actually got pretty good. i might end up rounding it to four stars in the future but i disliked the first half of it so much i might not.
March 12, 2021
I'm a fan of Russian drama and Ostrovsky is one of the greats. This one is a classic: the evil mother in law manipulating those around her, some twists of fate, and an actual storm brewing up at a crucial moment. The characters are quintessential turn of the century (18th) Russians and the plot is brilliant. There's a reason this play is often put on by Russian drama societies and college classes!
August 14, 2019
خودت مسئول خودت هستی، کسی کاری بهت نداره، ولی اگه کاری به کار دیگران داشته باشی، اینجا قلم پات رو خورد میکنن
October 19, 2022
A study of bullying. Varvara’s escape and Katerina’s end are their respective resistances.
September 1, 2022
*Read for class.
I liked it as much as I did the first time, but Jesus, people are vile. The patriarchy is killing people, beating them, torturing them and they're all like "that's fine, I deservse it". JESUS! I know those were the times, but it doesn't make it less horrible.
Still glad the play made me feel things and I'm looking forward to learning more about it.
I liked it as much as I did the first time, but Jesus, people are vile. The patriarchy is killing people, beating them, torturing them and they're all like "that's fine, I deservse it". JESUS! I know those were the times, but it doesn't make it less horrible.
Still glad the play made me feel things and I'm looking forward to learning more about it.
January 24, 2025
ما رحمت الا البطل والله مسكين و البطلة جدا مستفزة يلي يدافعوا عنها كلهم معرضين انهم يخونوا شركائهم زيها🤢 المسرحية حلوة مشكلتها يلي مترجمها ترجمها ترجمة ركيكة لابعد الحدود و في كثير اشياء ما فهمتها بسبب هالشي..بس لاحظت ان كل الشخصيات عندهم اخطاء و عيوب و خطايا منها الكبيرة و منها العظيمة التي لا تغتفر..بدي اتناقش و اتكلم مع شخص عن المسرحية وعن اخطاء وخطايا كل واحد من الشخصيات احس حيكون حديث ممتع
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August 6, 2024
переслушивала для бонусов "краткой теории всего", мощь
March 4, 2018
Վանիլային ու անմիտ սիրո պատմության կողքին հեղինակը երկրորդական կերպարների անունից խոսում ա լիքը կենցաղային ու տվյալ ժամանակին բնորոշ խնդիրների մասին, որոնք ինձ ամենաշատն են հետաքրքրում:
March 30, 2025
In essence,The Storm by Alexander Nicolaevich Ostrovsky is about the damage that can be caused by a horrible mother-in-law, in this case Maria Ignatyevna Kabanova, who persecutes her son, her daughter-in-law, and even her servants. She seems only to be able to get along with the merchant Savyol Prokofyevich Dikov, who is a carbon copy of her.
July 13, 2007
Who would have guessed a wealthy merchant and old widow could be so evil? They torment the people around them because they can. They have the money, power, and sadistic taste for it. The patriarch gets high on verbal abuse and violence, the matriarch with emotial and social manipulation. Together, they make the lives of their wards a living hell.
December 14, 2022
characters: pretty well written 8/10
atmosphere: hmm… 4/10
writing style: ok 6/10
plot: that ending shocked me 7/10
intrigue: all school books are boring 2/10
logic: no problems 10/10
enjoyment: 3/10
atmosphere: hmm… 4/10
writing style: ok 6/10
plot: that ending shocked me 7/10
intrigue: all school books are boring 2/10
logic: no problems 10/10
enjoyment: 3/10
January 28, 2024
4.5
de moi-même je ne pense pas que je l’aurais lu mais c’était une lecture grave cool !
l’histoire est prenante & les critiques de la russie sous le tsar super intéressantes
hâte de l’étudier <33
de moi-même je ne pense pas que je l’aurais lu mais c’était une lecture grave cool !
l’histoire est prenante & les critiques de la russie sous le tsar super intéressantes
hâte de l’étudier <33
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March 12, 2023To było ciekawe. Coś zupełnie innego niż wszystkie dramaty, które do tej pory czytałam. Ale chyba nie potrafię tego ocenić.
November 14, 2023
when she said it didn't matter if she went home or in the grave, i felt it
April 1, 2024
(3,5-4/5)
December 29, 2018
Russian Drama
This play seems a sad dark topic, but yet you see so much of the silver lining in some of the symbolism and in Ostrovsky's blatant criticism of the society of his day. For, can the storm last forever, the reader would ask? No, storms come and go, and things change. People change. The characters are enmeshed in a world where the rage is in all the wrong places.
One character in particular is used to speak the truth despite what goes on around him. Another is speaking only lies and hate at the problems she created. In the middle of this figurative storm, lives are shattered on the rocks. Ostrovsky does a great job of cutting to the heart of human nature. His characters seem real for the age in which they are presented. This was the first of his works I have read, and I would certainly look for more. I read this in the free Kindle format. A few quotes follow:
This play seems a sad dark topic, but yet you see so much of the silver lining in some of the symbolism and in Ostrovsky's blatant criticism of the society of his day. For, can the storm last forever, the reader would ask? No, storms come and go, and things change. People change. The characters are enmeshed in a world where the rage is in all the wrong places.
"Well now, my dear, if there's one thing I love, it's to hear a wail well done!"
One character in particular is used to speak the truth despite what goes on around him. Another is speaking only lies and hate at the problems she created. In the middle of this figurative storm, lives are shattered on the rocks. Ostrovsky does a great job of cutting to the heart of human nature. His characters seem real for the age in which they are presented. This was the first of his works I have read, and I would certainly look for more. I read this in the free Kindle format. A few quotes follow:
"What a pity people can't fly like birds. Do you know I sometimes fancy I'm a bird. When one stands on a high hill, one feels a longing to fly. One would take a little run, throw up one's arms..."
"...the Sultan Mahnoot the Turk... and Sultan Mahnoot the Persian. And they rule, my good girl, over all men, and whatever they decree it's always unrighteous. And they cannot, my dear, judge righteously in any one thing, such is the ban laid upon them. We have a just law, but they, my dear, an unjust law. Everything that is one way in our land is the very opposite in theirs. And all the judges with them, in their countries, are unjust too..."
"If you can't wail properly, you should wail a little, if only for example."
"And it's not for fear of thieves they lock themselves up; it's that folks shouldn't see the way they ill-treat their household, and bully their families. The family's something apart, secret!"
"Her body is here, take it; but her soul is not yours now; she is before a Judge more merciful than you are, now!"
"The stillness, the sweet air, the scent of flowers from the far side of the Volga, the clear sky— The space aloft, filled full of stars, Stars numberless, space limitless."
August 19, 2017
As in other European plays I have read since my university career, I found the beginning of "Thunder" (the translation of my copy) a bit dreary, reminiscent of "Waiting for Godot"-dreary. It was several months -- with the stack of papers carelessly discarded under my bedside table -- that I finally picked it up to complete my reading of it with the view of finishing it and recycling the papers. I became engaged by the end of Act III, and after the last line of Act V, I felt the impact that tragedy can wreck.
It must have been at least 12 years ago that I "interloaned" this play through my university's library. Oddly, I remember that this play was not part of the required reading; rather, I sought it out after seeing it referenced in a footnote in my readings for other European tragedies (I was pursuing a paper of the same title). It cost me $2 (NZD), and it was an investment as money was very tight for me, unimaginably so with my eye of today and those of others much more affluent than I ever have been.
It must have been at least 12 years ago that I "interloaned" this play through my university's library. Oddly, I remember that this play was not part of the required reading; rather, I sought it out after seeing it referenced in a footnote in my readings for other European tragedies (I was pursuing a paper of the same title). It cost me $2 (NZD), and it was an investment as money was very tight for me, unimaginably so with my eye of today and those of others much more affluent than I ever have been.
February 17, 2017
For me the central character of this play is Kabanova, not Katerina. Kabanova represents an entire culture, entire layer of population, and indeed some parts of the play point to the fact that she is not alone. She is deeply religious, as she thinks; she takes pride in multitude of her prayers, she believes she is a moralist and a custodian of the right ways, yet her true reality is satanic, poisonous, deadly to anyone around her. Ostrovsky shows a class of people who have drowned in the darkness but purport to carry the light on one hand, and, on the other hand, the fragile situation of kind, sincere and self-blaming souls in this darkness.
The storyline here is merely a way to convey another story, more subtle and valuable than it may seem at the first glance
The storyline here is merely a way to convey another story, more subtle and valuable than it may seem at the first glance
September 3, 2023
[août 2023]
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Et ce n'est pas pour se protéger des voleurs qu'ils s'enferment à clé, c'est pour qu'on ne les voie pas en train de massacrer les gens de leur maison et de tyranniser leur propre famille.
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Je ne connaissais pas, je l'ai volé dans la pal de fac de ma soeur et j'ai bcp aimé!
C'est très court, ça se lit très vite et très bien de par le format (pièce de théâtre) et c'était super chouette! Il y a une critique de la science vs religion, la russie conservatrice de l'époque, la paysannerie vs la bourgeoisie.
Vraiment chouette à lire!
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Et ce n'est pas pour se protéger des voleurs qu'ils s'enferment à clé, c'est pour qu'on ne les voie pas en train de massacrer les gens de leur maison et de tyranniser leur propre famille.
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Je ne connaissais pas, je l'ai volé dans la pal de fac de ma soeur et j'ai bcp aimé!
C'est très court, ça se lit très vite et très bien de par le format (pièce de théâtre) et c'était super chouette! Il y a une critique de la science vs religion, la russie conservatrice de l'époque, la paysannerie vs la bourgeoisie.
Vraiment chouette à lire!
July 18, 2014
Great story, obvious foreshadowing so much so that it makes you think it actually might not happen, but then of course it does. And no I don't mean the storm, that is obviously gonna happen. Hit kinda close to home on the spousal-matronal relations, but it's nice to get an idea of what it could have been like or at least see the ways that I know it wasn't and be thankful for that.
January 4, 2015
Decent play.
September 7, 2025
I've read this play four times, and I've hated Kabanova and Dikoy equally each time
I feel like Ostrovsky is like the most Russian Russian playwright
I feel like Ostrovsky is like the most Russian Russian playwright
February 9, 2024
"Гроза" - это произведение, которое поразило меня своей силой и эмоциональной глубиной. В романе Чехова я нашла отражение собственных переживаний, страстей и противоречий.
Главная героиня, Катя, предстает перед нами как женщина, погруженная во внутренний конфликт между своими желаниями и общественными ожиданиями. Ее страсть, ее мечты и разочарования, ее борьба за собственное счастье - все это вызывает восхищение и сострадание.
Чехов мастерски раскрывает психологию героини, показывая ее внутренний мир, ее сложные чувства и эмоции. Я прониклась глубоким сочувствием к Кате, ее трудностям и страданиям, ее стремлению к свободе и самопознанию.
Читая "Грозу", я погрузилась в атмосферу русской провинции, где каждый персонаж кажется живым и реальным. Чехов создает мир, наполненный тайной, магией и трагизмом человеческой судьбы.
Это произведение заставляет задуматься о ценностях жизни, о любви, о смысле бытия. "Гроза" - это книга, которая тронула мое сердце и оставила в моей душе незабываемый след. Я рекомендую всем прочитать этот роман, чтобы открыть для себя новые грани человеческой души и почувствовать всю глубину человеческих чувств.
Главная героиня, Катя, предстает перед нами как женщина, погруженная во внутренний конфликт между своими желаниями и общественными ожиданиями. Ее страсть, ее мечты и разочарования, ее борьба за собственное счастье - все это вызывает восхищение и сострадание.
Чехов мастерски раскрывает психологию героини, показывая ее внутренний мир, ее сложные чувства и эмоции. Я прониклась глубоким сочувствием к Кате, ее трудностям и страданиям, ее стремлению к свободе и самопознанию.
Читая "Грозу", я погрузилась в атмосферу русской провинции, где каждый персонаж кажется живым и реальным. Чехов создает мир, наполненный тайной, магией и трагизмом человеческой судьбы.
Это произведение заставляет задуматься о ценностях жизни, о любви, о смысле бытия. "Гроза" - это книга, которая тронула мое сердце и оставила в моей душе незабываемый след. Я рекомендую всем прочитать этот роман, чтобы открыть для себя новые грани человеческой души и почувствовать всю глубину человеческих чувств.
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