I.S. Turgenev. Summary of "Hunter's Notes"

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 saturated with love for Russia, as well as pervading the truth about the life of the people in the XIX century. Not just wrote on the seen banal retelling Turgenev.

"Notes of the Hunter" refer to that category of artistic prose, which literary critics call poetry in prose.

Such a high score is a tribute to expressiveness and emotional saturation.

The publication of "Hunter's Notes" is a bright event for Russian society

The stories that came 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 in his homeland after their publication was enormous. Even Emperor Alexander II repeatedly read this super-popular book, written by IS Turgenev ("Notes of a Hunter"). The main characters of the stories were vividly discussed in society and were familiar to all enlightened Russia. Ivan Sergeevich, as a true master of words, managed to create unique artistic images and affect the people's soul.

Twenty-five stories are united by the personality of one and the same narrator. This landlord Orel province, a hunter who, going on a regular hunt, at the same time sees something, notices, talks with people. He is observant and eloquent. Undoubtedly, his lips are spoken by Turgenev himself. The summary of the "Notes of the Hunter" - simultaneously the stories of their main characters. The genre of the story does not imply an accurate and global depiction of literary images. The overall picture is as if drawn by individual strokes. A unique lyrical picture of the life of the country, filled with the Russian spirit, is created by the stories "The Chorus and Kalinych", "Kasyan", "Singers", "Bezhin Meadow". Other stories are more detailed, as, for example, "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Uyezd", "Uyezd healer".

Original characters of "Hunter's Notes"

At the same time, the writer spares no effort for an uncomplicated, detailed, realistic depiction of the true life of ordinary people. He manages to see harmony even within the relations of the master and serf. Even here noticed the sprouts of new, not slavish, but human relations the great Turgenev. The summary of the "Notes of the Hunter" tells us how an educated, intelligent and human Horus is friends with his serf muzhik Kalinich. And there is neither antagonism, nor envy on the one hand, nor contempt on the other. Indeed, this was Russia - a communal country. And it is not in vain later that many revolutionary democrats, unlike the Bolsheviks, tried to draw a path to the future through enlightenment and repentance. The prerequisites for this were. About them - the story "The Chorus and Kalinych."

There is a deep and not ostentatious spirituality in the Russian people! So the writer thought. His spiritualized character Kasyan with the Beautiful Sword, who is the hero of the feat of foolishness, is persuasive and unrepeatable. It is like a church candle lighting all around itself. "There is a future for this people!" - says Ivan Sergeyevich, telling us about the communication of adolescents who brought horses to the night. Each boy feels a soul, thoughts, connection with his native land.

At the same time, Turgenev writes about the incompetence of serfdom. The summary of the "Notes of the Hunter" shows us the impartial images of the landlords who lost their ties with the people - Penochkin, Stepunov and Zverkov. At the same time, the writer denies the expediency and shows the social danger of peasant revolts (the story "Knocks"). Blood and violence as ways of solving social problems are unacceptable for Russia, the classic believes.

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 understanding by all sections of society of the need to abolish serfdom in the interests of the whole society. The living, unique folk images of Lukerya ("Living Power"), Arina (Ermolai and Melnichikha), Yashka-Turk ("Singers"), without flirting with the people, give the feeling of a single national core, community, catholicity of the Russian people. The highest recognition of mastery is that all Turgenev's stories speak of one thing. The fact that serfdom has outlived, and the people displayed in Turgenev's characters are beautiful, unique, and by definition can not be a slave.