Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ... Probably, there is no person in Russia who would not know this name. He enters our life in childhood and remains in it until the end: for some, a friend, for someone, a teacher. What kind of person was Pushkin? He always strove for justice and freedom, condemned the arbitrariness of the landlords, revenge, selfishness. The most famous work of the poet, of course, is the novel "Eugene Onegin." At the end of his writing, Alexander Sergeyevich exclaimed about himself: "Ah yes Pushkin!" The author realized that he had created a masterpiece. Indeed, the work turned out to be elegant, light, but at the same time infinitely deep and multifaceted. "Eugene Onegin" reflected the whole bitter reality of the "Golden Age". The novel is still unparalleled neither in Russian, nor in the entire world literature.
The creation of the "encyclopedia of Russian life"
The work as a whole has been written for more than eight years. Pushkin began it in his youth, when he was in southern exile - these were the years of the Decembrist uprising. In the process of writing the novel Eugene Onegin, the poet lost many of his friends. He completed it in Boldino, when, after the defeat of the Decembrists, the atmosphere of the strict regime of Nicholas I reigned. It was at this time that Alexander Sergeevich experienced an unprecedented creative upsurge. The famous critic Belinsky called Onegin the most sincere work of Pushkin. It is difficult to disagree with this, because in his creation the poet embodied not only his own arguments about life, feelings and thoughts, but also himself as a whole. The image of the author in the novel in verses “Eugene Onegin”, perhaps, can be called one of the central.
Pushkin as a hero of a work
Creating a special world, Alexander Sergeyevich himself appears in it as an actor. He is not only a writer and narrator, but also a hero of the work. How important is this character? It is difficult to overestimate the image of the author and his role in Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”. Due to the constant presence of the poet on the pages of the book, the described events are given extraordinary authenticity and special lyricism. Alexander Sergeyevich in his work is a full-blooded living character with his own character, his own worldview, his own ideals. At the same time, the image of the author in the novel by A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” does not prevail over the others; his intrusion into the course of the narrative is quite justified and organic. The poet’s subjective view of these or other things allows the reader to more deeply comprehend the events that take place, to understand how the author evaluates many historical facts and phenomena of reality characteristic of that time.
Pushkin and Onegin: differences
The image of the author in the novel "Eugene Onegin" can be traced from the very beginning of the work. So, Alexander Sergeyevich, speaking of the typical character of the education received by the protagonist, he relates himself to this social environment. He writes: “We all learned a bit of something and somehow ...” At the same time, the poet emphasizes the difference between himself and Onegin. They are opposed in relation to theatrical art: Pushkin calls the theater "the magic land", and Eugene sees in it only entertainment. They relate differently to nature: the author loves it, and Onegin considers one of the links in the change of occupation. They do not have similarities with respect to love: the protagonist says that this is "a science of tender passion," and Alexander Sergeyevich notes that "all poets are loves and dreamy friends." Otherwise, they relate to literature - the creator of the work writes about Eugene: “he couldn’t distinguish an iamb from a chorea ...”.
Pushkin and Onegin: similarities
Nevertheless, the image of the author in A. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” echoes the image of the protagonist. They are united by the preference of Tatyana Olga, and the condescension to Lensky, and the assessment of the Larin’s house. At the beginning of the work, the poet’s mood is windy, playful, changeable. Being likened to Onegin, who knew “the science of tender passion”, Alexander Sergeyevich worships female legs, paying tribute to the amusements of youth. Here, the author appears frivolous, a regular of the city balls and a typical representative of an empty aristocratic community. But a rebuttal immediately follows in the text, allowing the reader to understand that even though the poet is not ideal, since the costs of the environment in which he was brought up left an imprint on him, but at the same time his character is rather complicated, ambiguous, and along with secular unceremoniousness - inherent sophistication and depth of feelings.
Traveling through the pages of the work, the reader understands that the image of the author in the novel "Eugene Onegin" is not at all what it seems at first. The poet is above superficial hobbies and weaknesses, his inner world is diverse and rich. Pushkin overcame his dependence on the aristocratic milieu, rose above it, freed from the emptiness and vulgarity of social life, and converged on this ground with Onegin. The author and the protagonist are united by a protest against lack of spirituality, a critical perception of reality, the desire for self-realization, and the search for social ideals.
The poet’s attitude to Larina and Lensky
The image of the author in Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” emerges in the assessments of the characters of the work and their actions. Alexander Sergeevich sympathizes with all the characters, but mainly Tatyana Larina. It is no coincidence that he writes: “I love my dear Tatiana so much!” The author has a lot in common with her - this is attitude to freedom, to nature ... Therefore, Tatyana’s pensive dreaminess, the depth of her feelings, emotional tension are close to her. For the spiritually matured Pushkin, she is the ideal of a woman and even a muse.
Alexander Sergeyevich is also kind to Lensky, a freedom-loving and romantically enthusiastic young man who believes in the power of true friendship. The author himself was the same in his youth, but has long survived a passion for romanticism - now he literally ironically calls this literary movement arrogant and divorced from reality. Although irony is mixed with the bitterness of the fact that the bygone time can no longer be returned.
Copyright retreats and image of the author
In the novel "Eugene Onegin" there are many lyrical digressions in which Pushkin either returns to his youth or speaks about the problems of society that concern him. The poet pays a lot of attention to Moscow - a city that he loves very much. Who doesn’t know his lines: “Moscow! How much this sound ... "!
But most of all, the image of the author in the novel "Eugene Onegin" is revealed when Alexander Sergeyevich writes about love, tells how to relate to women. Indeed, it was in this work by Pushkin that he concluded: “The less a woman we love, the easier she likes us,” which all men try to follow these days.
In lyrical digressions, the poet recalls the years he lived through, the main events of his life, joyful and sad. Under the pen of a deep thinker and subtle lyrics, everything he has experienced comes to life in Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, in Mikhailovsky, in St. Petersburg.
A novel about youth
In the work, Alexander Sergeyevich showed the life of different sectors of society: the village, and the city, and the province, and the capital. He spoke especially vividly about Russian youth of that time. In the novel, all the characters are young people full of life, feelings, hopes, passions. Pushkin regrets that his youth quickly passed, and urges the reader to stay young longer, not to succumb to laziness and spleen.
In general, one cannot fail to say how the poet relates to the reader. He is the best friend for the author, ready to understand and listen. “My friends”, “my dears”, “my reader” - this is how Alexander Sergeyevich addresses his addressees. Of course, from the very beginning of the story, this has attracted readers to Pushkin. At the same time, the poet brings them closer to himself, then moves them away. For the author, the reader is a critic with whom he shares his plans.
What does the work teach?
The image of the author in the novel "Eugene Onegin" helps to expand the boundaries of the work. The narration is conducted, as it were, from several persons interrupting each other, some of whom are directly involved in the text, others are familiar with the characters of the novel, and still others are out of events. All of them are united in the author, make up the gamut of his various manifestations, and therefore a feeling of wealth and complexity of the poet’s personality appears. The work is written in the tone of light sadness, sadness, but at the same time it is filled with a person’s faith in the future. The novel rejects serfdom, teaches to hate an empty and empty life, narcissism, selfishness, callousness of the heart.
Finally
Alexander Pushkin in Eugene Onegin tried to get away from stereotyped artistic techniques and avoid conventions. Therefore, he deliberately connected the world of the author and the characters, deliberately violated the plot lines and introduced into the novel the features of his contemporary life. This allowed the poet to create a truly realistic work, a real "encyclopedia of Russian life."