Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev forever entered the history of Russian literature and won a place in the hearts of millions of admirers of his work thanks to poetic prose, full of love for Russia, as well as permeating every line of the truth about the life of the people in the XIX century. Not just wrote according to what he saw was a banal retelling of Turgenev.
"Notes of the hunter" belong to the category of prose that literary scholars call poetry in prose.
Such a high mark is a tribute to expressiveness and emotional richness.
The publication of "Notes of the hunter" is a bright event for Russian society
The stories that fell into this collection were created gradually. They were first fully published in 1852 (however, three stories were included in the Notes a little later). The popularity of the writer at home after their publication was enormous. Even Emperor Alexander II more than once read this super popular book written by I. S. Turgenev (“Notes of the Hunter”). The main characters of the stories were vividly discussed in society and were familiar to all enlightened Russia. Ivan Sergeyevich, as a true master of words, managed to create unique artistic images and affect the people's soul with them.
Twenty-five stories are united by the personality of the same narrator.
This is the landowner of the Oryol province, a hunter who, setting off for the next hunt, sees something along the way, notes, talks with people. He is observant and eloquent. Undoubtedly, Turgenev himself speaks through his mouth. Summary of “Notes of the Hunter” - simultaneously the stories of their main characters. The genre of the story does not imply an accurate and global rendering of literary images. The overall picture is as if painted in separate strokes. The unique lyrical picture of the life of the country, filled with the Russian spirit, is created by the stories “Ferret and Kalinych”, “Kasyan”, “Singers”, “Bezhin Meadow”. Other stories are more detailed, such as, for example, "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Uyezd", "County Healer."
Original characters of “Notes of the hunter”
At the same time, the writer spares no effort for an unembellished, detailed, realistic depiction of the true life of ordinary people. He manages to see harmony even within the relations between the master and the serf. Even here, the great Turgenev noticed the sprouts of new, not slavish, but human relations. The summary of the “Notes of the Hunter” tells us how an educated, intelligent and humane Horus is friends with his serf man Kalinych. And there is neither antagonism, nor envy on the one hand, nor contempt on the other. Indeed, such was Russia — a communal country. And it was not for nothing that later many revolutionary democrats, unlike the Bolsheviks, tried to draw her a path to the future through enlightenment and repentance. There were prerequisites for this. About them - the story "Ferret and Kalynich."
There is a deep, not ostentatious spirituality among the Russian people! So the writer considered. His inspired character Kasyan with Beautiful Swords, performing the feat of foolishness, is convincing and unique.
He is like a
church candle lighting all around him. “There is a future for this people!” Says Ivan Sergeyevich, having told us about the communication of teenagers who brought horses to the night. Every boy feels a soul, thoughts, connection with his native land.
At the same time, Turgenev writes about the insolvency of serfdom. The summary of the “Notes of the Hunter” shows us the unpleasant images of the landowners, Penochkin, Stegunov and Zverkov, who lost touch with the people. At the same time, the writer denies expediency and shows the public danger of peasant riots (the story “Knocks”). Blood and violence as ways to solve social problems are unacceptable for Russia, says the classic.
conclusions
Very timely wrote his book Turgenev. The summary of the “Notes of the Hunter” leaves no doubt that they played a big role in the understanding by all sections of society of the need to abolish serfdom in the interests of the whole society. Living, unique folk images of Lukerya (“Living relics”), Arina (“Yermolai and the mill”), Yashki-Turk (“Singers”), without flirting with the people, give a feeling of a single national core, community, collegiality of the Russian people. The highest recognition of mastery lies in the fact that all Turgenev's stories speak of one thing. The fact that serfdom has outlived and the people depicted in Turgenev’s characters is beautiful, unique, and by definition cannot be a slave.