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Гранатовый браслет. Олеся
В книгу вошли повесть «Олеся» и рассказ «Гранатовый браслет» замечательного русского писателя А.И.Куприна.
285 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1910
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About the author
Aleksandr Kuprin
915 books155 followersAleksandr Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн; 7 September 1870 in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast - August 25, 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel (1905). Other well-known works include Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), Junior Captain Rybnikov (1906), Emerald (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) (which was made into a 1965 movie). Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure-seekers, who are often "neurotic and vulnerable."
Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty-seven years. His mother, Liubov' Alekseevna Kuprina, Tatar princess (of the Kulunchakovs), like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century. Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876, and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School (Cadet Corps) and Alexander Military School, spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions. His first short story, The Last Debut, was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical. "In February 1902, Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married, their daughter Lidia born in 1903." Kuprin's mother died during 1910.
Kuprin ended military service during 1894, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc. Reportedly, "all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction." His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections. Reportedly, "although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists."
Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel (1905) which made him famous. "Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize-winning Ivan Bunin" and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov. After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels. His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit (1915), was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.
Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism. While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime. During spring 1919, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France. He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years, succumbing to alcoholism. He wrote about this in much of his work. He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31, 1937, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge. His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union.
Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery (Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery) in Leningrad. A minor planet 3618 Kuprin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.
Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothels, making him a writer for all times and places."
Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty-seven years. His mother, Liubov' Alekseevna Kuprina, Tatar princess (of the Kulunchakovs), like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century. Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876, and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School (Cadet Corps) and Alexander Military School, spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions. His first short story, The Last Debut, was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical. "In February 1902, Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married, their daughter Lidia born in 1903." Kuprin's mother died during 1910.
Kuprin ended military service during 1894, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc. Reportedly, "all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction." His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections. Reportedly, "although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists."
Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel (1905) which made him famous. "Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize-winning Ivan Bunin" and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov. After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels. His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit (1915), was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.
Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism. While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime. During spring 1919, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France. He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years, succumbing to alcoholism. He wrote about this in much of his work. He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31, 1937, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge. His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union.
Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery (Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery) in Leningrad. A minor planet 3618 Kuprin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.
Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothels, making him a writer for all times and places."
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August 25, 2019
Ιδιαίτερα εξέχουσα και τιμητική θέση κατέχει στο έργο του Κουπρίν το θέμα της αγάπης!
•Ολέσια
•Το βραχιόλι με τους γρανάτες
Δυο τρυφερές, όμορφες μα και άγριες ιστορίες,
με το πεπρωμένο να αμιλλάται την μοίρα,
σε ένα αριστούργημα πολυσύνθετων κραμάτων, σύνθεσης και αποσύνθεσης σωμάτων και ψυχών.
Σε αυτό το διαχρονικά απαράμιλλο έργο τέχνης,
με θέμα την αγάπη.
Είναι ιστορίες ανθρώπινες, για ανήκουστες, μοναδικές και κοινότοπες αγάπες, για την κόλαση των εραστών και τον χαμένο παράδεισο ανεκπλήρωτων παθών και πόθων.
Είναι οι έννοιες, οι ιδέες, οι εμμονές, οι καταληπτικές και ακατάληπτες αισθήσεις και παραισθήσεις, τα παντοτινά και τα ποτέ, στην Συμπαντική γλώσσα των ερωτευμένων και των αθανάτων.
Αυτών που έζησαν στιγμές μέσα σε ένα άλλο κορμί και ολοκλήρωσαν το νόημα της ύπαρξης τους.
Είτε με την φαντασία που συνήθως γίνεται μελαγχολική τρέλα, είτε με την εμπειρία της άμετρης ευτυχίας μέσω συγκοινωνούντων άλογων ηδονών.
Κάθε έκφανση αγάπης ανάμεσα σε εραστές είναι μια ύστατη λησμονιά. Ένας μυσταγωγικός θάνατος σαν κάθοδος στα έγκατα των υπαρξιακών σπηλαίων.
Φήμες λένε πως όταν αυτό βιώνεται είναι αδύνατον να γνωρίζεις αν χάνεσαι μέσα στον εαυτό σου ή μέσα στον άλλον.
Ένωση πνευματική, σαρκική, νοητική, αυτοεκπληρούμενη μέθεξη.
Αυτοί οι ίδιοι, που αγαπούν,που θυσιάζονται στην παντοδυναμία της φύσης και των αρχέγονων ενστίκτων, κυριευμένοι απο καυστικά ελιξίρια αθάνατου πόθου, αυτοθυσίες και συγκινήσεις,
τόσο συναισθηματικά έντονες που κάνουν τον άνθρωπο να εθίζεται στην ιερή ακολασία ή να χάνει τα λογικά του απο τον εκκωφαντικό θόρυβο που κάνει η καρδιά όταν σπάσει.
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Πολλούς ασπασμούς.
•Ολέσια
•Το βραχιόλι με τους γρανάτες
Δυο τρυφερές, όμορφες μα και άγριες ιστορίες,
με το πεπρωμένο να αμιλλάται την μοίρα,
σε ένα αριστούργημα πολυσύνθετων κραμάτων, σύνθεσης και αποσύνθεσης σωμάτων και ψυχών.
Σε αυτό το διαχρονικά απαράμιλλο έργο τέχνης,
με θέμα την αγάπη.
Είναι ιστορίες ανθρώπινες, για ανήκουστες, μοναδικές και κοινότοπες αγάπες, για την κόλαση των εραστών και τον χαμένο παράδεισο ανεκπλήρωτων παθών και πόθων.
Είναι οι έννοιες, οι ιδέες, οι εμμονές, οι καταληπτικές και ακατάληπτες αισθήσεις και παραισθήσεις, τα παντοτινά και τα ποτέ, στην Συμπαντική γλώσσα των ερωτευμένων και των αθανάτων.
Αυτών που έζησαν στιγμές μέσα σε ένα άλλο κορμί και ολοκλήρωσαν το νόημα της ύπαρξης τους.
Είτε με την φαντασία που συνήθως γίνεται μελαγχολική τρέλα, είτε με την εμπειρία της άμετρης ευτυχίας μέσω συγκοινωνούντων άλογων ηδονών.
Κάθε έκφανση αγάπης ανάμεσα σε εραστές είναι μια ύστατη λησμονιά. Ένας μυσταγωγικός θάνατος σαν κάθοδος στα έγκατα των υπαρξιακών σπηλαίων.
Φήμες λένε πως όταν αυτό βιώνεται είναι αδύνατον να γνωρίζεις αν χάνεσαι μέσα στον εαυτό σου ή μέσα στον άλλον.
Ένωση πνευματική, σαρκική, νοητική, αυτοεκπληρούμενη μέθεξη.
Αυτοί οι ίδιοι, που αγαπούν,που θυσιάζονται στην παντοδυναμία της φύσης και των αρχέγονων ενστίκτων, κυριευμένοι απο καυστικά ελιξίρια αθάνατου πόθου, αυτοθυσίες και συγκινήσεις,
τόσο συναισθηματικά έντονες που κάνουν τον άνθρωπο να εθίζεται στην ιερή ακολασία ή να χάνει τα λογικά του απο τον εκκωφαντικό θόρυβο που κάνει η καρδιά όταν σπάσει.
💔💜
Καλή ανάγνωση.
Πολλούς ασπασμούς.
May 17, 2020
Поставив би й ще одну зірочку, якби не шовінізм русского міра, яким просякнута ця книга.
Автор пише про справжню любов у двох повістях, але окрім цього цікаво вивчати побут і спосіб мислення персонажів, адже події відбуваються у царській Росії в Україні. Дві речі мені впали в око у цьому контексті: автор описує усіх не росіян як тупих малоросів, для нього це природно, він трактує їх як рабів і кріпаків і усю їхню культуру теж. А друге - це корупція і гнилизна російських чиновників. Я, на жаль, ще й досі часто помічаю відголоски малороства серед українців, які, наприклад, переходять на російську. Можна тільки уявити наскільки глибоко вкорінилася гнилизна й корупція й сучасному російському суспільстві, яке досі живе думками про імперію, врешті як і шовінізм...
Автор пише про справжню любов у двох повістях, але окрім цього цікаво вивчати побут і спосіб мислення персонажів, адже події відбуваються у царській Росії в Україні. Дві речі мені впали в око у цьому контексті: автор описує усіх не росіян як тупих малоросів, для нього це природно, він трактує їх як рабів і кріпаків і усю їхню культуру теж. А друге - це корупція і гнилизна російських чиновників. Я, на жаль, ще й досі часто помічаю відголоски малороства серед українців, які, наприклад, переходять на російську. Можна тільки уявити наскільки глибоко вкорінилася гнилизна й корупція й сучасному російському суспільстві, яке досі живе думками про імперію, врешті як і шовінізм...
January 17, 2020
The Garnet Bracelet has to be one of my all time favorite stories. I cried when I read it for the first time in school and now when I've just finished my reread I am crying again.
It's such a beautiful story. I loved it then and I loved it this time around. Highly recommended to everyone. It is a very quick read and it will not leave you indifferent.
It's such a beautiful story. I loved it then and I loved it this time around. Highly recommended to everyone. It is a very quick read and it will not leave you indifferent.
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