"Hero of Our Time" - the last bigthe work of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, which was published in full in the year of his death. However, taking into account the entire logic of the development of the genius of the writer, it can be assumed that if his life did not end so early, this would be only the beginning. Lermontov promised to grow into the largest Russian prose writer, since nothing equal to this work then existed in Russian literature.
Lermontov began to think about prose in the late thirtiesyo In the fortieth, the first edition of the novel "A Hero of Our Time" was published, and a year later - the second. They differed in the preface, which Mikhail Yuryevich added in the second version. In it, he expressed some important thoughts. First of all, here all suspicions are dismissed about identifying the author with the character of the work that Lermontov wrote, “The Hero of Our Time”. "Pechorin is not me!" - says Mikhail Yurievich. He emphasizes that he writes a novel not about himself, but about a hero of his time.
The second comment in the prefacealso shifted many accents of perception of the work. Lermontov mentions the naivety of the public, who are always waiting for direct conclusions or morality. Who is the "hero of our time"? Pechorin or someone else? Here Mikhail Yurievich openly mocks those who at the end of the work hopes to see the answers to their questions.
In this work Lermontov undertakesan attempt - consistent, clear and very ambitious - to answer the question of what kind of personality, character is the carrier of the key properties of time. And how are these qualities motivated by external conditions? Why is Pechorin the “hero of our time” and why does he live during this period?
Произведение содержит в себе очень сложный смысл.The fact is that the “hero of our time” Pechorin is not so much motivated by external conditions as, on the contrary, opposes them. In the novel there is a minimum of facts, references to history, to the large state scale of events.
The character seems to exist separately fromevents occurring at this time. And he lives a very incomprehensible life. It is not clear what he seeks. Does he make a career, whether he wants to get another rank, meet true love. There are no answers to these questions.
What is different from other images of the work"Hero of Our Time" Pechorin? Characteristics of the personality of this character shows him as a man constantly contradicting himself. And yet, the reader still understands his logic, and the fact that he is a man, in principle. The difficulties of the character of the main character, this elusive “hero of the time,” correspond to the whole complexity of looking at him.
Михаил Юрьевич создает весьма непростую систему, combining different storytellers and witnesses who describe events. As a result, the reader does not come close to answering his questions, but as if, on the contrary, he is moving away from them.
There are descriptions of events seen by MaximMaksimovich, an officer rather innocent. He lives next to Pechorin and treats him with deep sympathy, but sees in him the wrong person who he really is. The complex, controversial image of the main character is presented throughout the whole of the novel through the eyes of various characters, including himself.
Не только главный, но и довольно сложный персонаж works "Hero of Our Time" - Pechorin. The characteristic of his personality is created with the help of the people around him. And when they analyze this person from the outside, sometimes their opinions do not coincide with his own point of view. Since, for example, Maxim notices in him much more than himself. Observes those properties that are not visible to him.
And so it happens with every person who, likeThe character of the novel "The Hero of Our Time" Pechorin, is recessed into himself. He has almost no friends, except for Dr. Werner. And it is very important that just a bystander can see the main thing in this personality, its best qualities.
Чем же занят постоянно главный персонаж works "Hero of Our Time" Pechorin? He is engrossed in a constant search for himself. And in most cases they turn out to be a search for love, passion, genuinely intimate, cordial, friendly relations with a woman.
Наедине с самим собой это очень странный человек.Any of his actions gives rise to opposition. Any act turns out to be not the result that he expected. He is like a director who builds his life and sees himself constantly from the outside. And all this for the person is painful and destructive. After all, it is unnatural to constantly think about yourself.
Михаил Юрьевич абсолютно оригинален.Based on the usual literary schemes, he offers the reader something quite unusual. Each event in the novel is seen from different points of view, and none is dominant.
To understand the work of Lermontov, you mustarrange the stories included in the novel "Hero of Our Time" in the sequence of real events. Mikhail Yuryevich builds his own author's chronology, different from the reality of what is happening. This sets a special artistic logic of the development of the idea of the image of the “hero of our time” - a person who embodies the essence of that period.
Что еще характерно для произведения "Герой нашего "Quotes of Pechorin, present throughout the novel, are filled with deep meaning and reveal the essence of the character's character. Not being able to apply his energy and talent outside, direct his aspirations to some external object, he closes them on himself. And every times acts as the executioner of the people he loves.
That is why Pechorin is "a hero of our time",the reader analyzes throughout the entire work, but the philosophical key to his image lies precisely in the story "The Fatalist." It is no coincidence that she concludes the whole novel. Here lies the belief that fate cannot be contradicted, everything is predetermined in advance. And the predictions in the story come true in a strange way. And at the same time, Pechorin every time, being sure of the fatality of the events, is opposed to them.
This is a person who intervenes in eventstrying to change them, while at the same time convinced that this is absolutely useless exercise. A completely incomprehensible person, each act of which guarantees the opposite result, and the striving for activity contains as a result impotence.
Contemporaries could rethink thanks to the novelsituations, facts, details of life. For example, the duel with Grushnitsky, which is of great importance in the context of the work. Such a duel for the nineteenth century is a significant attribute of noble life. And it is very important to rethink the duel code, which is given in the novel "Hero of Our Time".
This wonderful work was written fora year before the death of the poet, but it involuntarily seems that it describes the history of the upcoming duel. The author himself is invisibly present in the image of the hero, but he also gave Grushnitsky a personality trait of Nikolai Martynov’s character and appearance.
The novel "Hero of Our Time" was the beginning of a wholeliterary tradition. Without this work and the artistic discoveries to which Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov came to, perhaps there would not have been the best novels of Turgenev and Tolstoy. It is this work that begins a new era in Russian literature, dominated by prose and, in particular, the genre of the novel.
