An interesting question today arises as to whether young people of our time should read the books of classics of Russian literature. Why would they “bother” their heads with the complex novels of Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Do they need Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, Turgenev and others? There is only one answer - it is simply necessary to study the ingenious works of these great people.
Classics Books
And all because our great classics, in their literary works, touch upon very important and burning questions of the education of morality and spirituality in man, the search for faith and the meaning of life. A person constantly has to struggle with something: with society, with himself, with personal enemies and solve many different kinds of problems. A crisis can occur at any moment, and sooner or later he will want to find out what happiness, love, is a reward or punishment, what is death and is there God ...
The books of classics make one come close to all these issues and, with the help of characters, reveal to us some secrets of the human essence, often look at oneself, draw the right conclusions and find a way out of a difficult situation.
Meaning
How exactly does Leo Tolstoy describe in the novel “War and Peace” an idea that consists in the need for each person to constantly improve, and that physical and mental beauty is not naturally given, but appears as a result of irrepressible work?
This endless self-improvement is the meaning of life. We must strive to become better, kinder and more moral. This is the only way to earn happiness, because it is given only to those people who have reached a high spiritual level.
Temptations
A person can make mistakes. But he himself is weak and imperfect and very easily succumb to various temptations. Like Dostoevsky’s in Crime and Punishment, his hero Raskolnikov decides to kill a nasty and greedy old woman, as he decided for himself that unfit and evil people have no place in this world, and now he himself can take on the role of a judge to facilitate thus the life of many other unhappy people. And he considered this his point of view the most correct. However, people have a conscience - a kind of moral self-control that will sooner or later awaken from any individual and will act worse than any sophisticated executioner. Raskolnikov felt all this on himself.
Books
Well, now, in fact, you can list the books of the classics, which every intellectually developing person needs to familiarize themselves with. The list will be very short, since everything just does not fit in one small article.
Classical books include Pushkin’s works: “Eugene Onegin”, “Queen of Spades”, “Captain's Daughter” and, of course, his extraordinary tales; M. Lermontova: “Borodino”, “Hero of our time”, “Demon”; M. Dostoevsky: “Idiot”, “Brothers Karamazov”, “Crime and Punishment”; N. Gogol: “Taras Bulba”, “Dead Souls”, “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”; L. Tolstoy: “War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina”; A. Chekhov: “The Lady with the Dog,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “Three Sisters”; I. Turgenev: “Fathers and Sons”, “Noble Nest”, “Notes of the Hunter”.
Also, one should not forget about the works of M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. Griboedov, M. Gorky, N. Nekrasov, A. Blok, A. Ostrovsky, N. Leskov, etc.