Why is Eugene Onegin's work called a novel? Why is "Eugene Onegin" named A
The novel in verse by Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” is, first of all, the most famous and important for understanding him creative personality And literary path work. The poet began work in the spring of 1823 in Chisinau, completed the novel in Boldin in the surprisingly fruitful and happy autumn of 1830 for Pushkin. On the significant “lyceum” day of October 19, he burned the manuscript of the dangerous tenth chapter, but continued his plan.
The work “Eugene Onegin” is called a “free novel”: “free” from the rules by which works of art of that time were created. Before Pushkin, in the classical novel, both the plot and the characters always obeyed a strictly defined pattern. Here is the inspired and straight Talk with the reader he is surprisingly free, nothing fetters the poet. The author becomes new actor his novel in verse, its director and conductor. He easily moves from the fate of the heroes to his own reasoning and memories, sometimes calmly ending the story.
The narrator goes beyond personal conflict, and the novel includes Russian life in all its manifestations. This is the most important compositional and plot feature of the novel.
Poetic speech is an unusual and to a certain extent conventional form, in everyday life They don't speak in rhyme. But poetry allows you to deviate from the usual, traditional. Without a doubt, the poet appreciates in his chosen genre form historical narrative namely freedom, and it is given by the free poetic word. For Pushkin, “Eugene Onegin” is, first of all, free in the nature of the narrative, in composition, and this free form determined “ Russian face"novel of a new generation.
Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" - the first Russian realistic novel, and written in poetry. It became an innovative work both in form and content. Pushkin set the task not only to show in him the “hero of the time”, Onegin, a man with “premature old age of the soul”, to create the image of a Russian woman, Tatyana Larina, but also to draw an “encyclopedia of Russian life” of that era. All this required overcoming not only the narrow framework of classicism, but also abandoning the romantic approach. Pushkin strives to bring his work as close as possible to life, which does not tolerate schematicism and predetermined structures, and therefore the form of the novel becomes “free.”
And the point is not only that the author only places an “introduction” at the end of chapter 7, ironically noting: “...Even though it’s late, there is an introduction.” And not even what the novel reveals internal monologue Onegin, reflecting on his trip to the village to his uncle for an inheritance, which is interrupted by a story about the hero’s childhood and youth, about the years spent in a whirlwind social life. And it’s not even that the author often interrupts the plot part by placing this or that lyrical digression, in which he can talk about anything: about literature, theater, his life, about the feelings and thoughts that excite him, about roads or about women’s legs - or he can simply talk with readers: “Hm! hmm! Noble reader, / Are all your relatives healthy? No wonder Pushkin asserted: “A novel requires chatter.”
He really doesn't seem to create piece of art, but simply tells a story that happened to his good friends. That is why in the novel, next to its heroes Onegin, Tatyana, Lensky, Olga, people who lived during Pushkin appear - Vyazemsky, Kaverin, Nina Voronskaya and others. Moreover, the Author himself becomes the hero of his own novel, turning out to be a “good friend” of Onegin. The author keeps letters from Onegin and Tatyana, poems by Lensky - and they, too, are organically included in the novel, without in any way violating its integrity, although they are not written in the “Onegin stanza.”
It seems that such a work - a “free novel” - can include anything, but with all the “freedom” its composition is harmonious and thoughtful. The main thing why this feeling of freedom is created is that Pushkin’s novel exists like life itself: unpredictably and at the same time consistent with a certain internal law. Sometimes even Pushkin himself was surprised at what his heroes “did”, for example, when his beloved heroine Tatyana “got married.” It is clear why many of Pushkin’s contemporaries tried to see the traits of their friends and acquaintances in the heroes of the novel - and found them! In that amazing work life pulsates and bursts out, creating even now the effect of the reader’s “presence” at the moment the action develops. And life is always free in its many twists and turns. Such is Pushkin’s truly realistic novel, which opened the way for new Russian literature.
“Eugene Onegin” is not without a touch of poetic romanticism inherent in Pushkin. But this is already in to a greater extent a realistic work showing the life and customs of Russian reality in the 20s of the 19th century. It is no coincidence that Belinsky, in his critical analysis of Pushkin’s works, called the novel “Eugene Onegin” an encyclopedia of Russian life. “...It is a great merit on the part of the poet that he was able to so accurately capture the reality of a certain moment in the life of society...”
The novel presents Russian nature in all seasons with bright colors. Moreover, these sketches were made so beautifully and realistically that researchers used them to determine the years in which the events described took place. In the poem, the reader will find many lyrical lines describing the beautiful Russian nature (for example, or).
The novel begins with an acquaintance with, flying to the Russian outback “on postal” from St. Petersburg.
How multifaceted and colorful the Russian language is! One phrase “young rake” says a lot: our main character- a somewhat frivolous and idle person. The reader will certainly find confirmation of what has been said in the subsequent narrative.
Onegin was born in St. Petersburg and received a typical home education. At that time, nobles everywhere preferred the French language. There were several reasons for this. The French language was incomprehensible ordinary people, who did not always know how to read and write even in Russian, and distinguished a nobleman from a commoner. Therefore, in Russia there was an increased demand for French teachers.
Demand, as we know, creates supply, and the French flew to Russia like bees to honey. Not all of them were well educated and capable of giving the nobles a decent education, but they had the main advantage - they knew French.
We all learned a little bit
Something and somehow.
By classifying himself among such lowlifes, Alexander Sergeevich is clearly being modest. After all, he received an excellent education at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Pushkin shows in detail one day of a young man in St. Petersburg. This is how many representatives of the highest secular society. As they say, from the particular to the general. Balls, parties with friends, theaters.
Pushkin loved the theater and could not help but send his hero there. But Onegin came here not so much for the sake of the production, but “to look at people and show himself.”
It's time for everyone to change;
I endured ballets for a long time,
But I’m tired of Didelo too.
Pushkin loved the theater. He speaks with delight and admiration about the artists he saw during his stay in the capital. His poem has preserved for us some names and titles of productions.
But, theatrically speaking, the second act begins, the scenery changes. The reader is transported to a Russian village, where Evgeny has already galloped, his uncle has already died, and adjusting the pillows young man you won't have to.
It begins with a description of the village “where Evgeniy was bored.” Further events unfold here, in the district, between the estates of Onegin, the Larins and Lensky. Description of the house, a few strokes show how Uncle Evgeniy lived. Onegin was shy of his narrow-minded and simple-minded neighbors, and, avoiding communication with them, left the house as soon as he saw a wagon approaching his estate.
As the antipode of Onegin, another young landowner returned to his estate -. Through him the reader gets acquainted with the Larin family. Unlike Onegin, Lensky did not run away from his neighbors, but conversations “about haymaking, about wine, about the kennel, about his relatives” were of little interest to him. By the way, in this phrase Pushkin does not simply show the interests of Russian landowners. From it we can understand that in the province described Agriculture was based on livestock farming. In the villages they made wine and liqueurs from fruits and berries; men were fond of hunting, kept and bred hunting dogs, which were the pride of many landowners.
And while the fathers were busy with housework and dogs, their daughters read with enthusiasm French novels, dreamed of a mysterious and romantic love, and the mothers looked for grooms for them from among their single neighbors. Such were the customs. Marriage was often a way to solve some economic problems.
A new change of scenery takes place when Mother Larina arrives in Moscow with her. Other people, other pictures. The cousins accept our Tatyana into their society, they take her out into the world. The young provincial girl makes a mixed impression on men. They examine her, discuss her, talk about her. And one fine day a certain general drew attention to her. It was a hero Patriotic War 1812, a man accepted at court and mother did everything to persuade Tatyana to marry. She could persuade her daughter, but she could not force her. In the 19th century there were already certain rules and restrictions in this matter.
But, as follows from the further narration, Tatyana and her husband were lucky. He loved his wife and appreciated her.
But a sudden ringing sound rang out,
And Tatyana’s husband showed up,
And here is my hero,
In a moment that is evil for him,
Reader, we will now leave,
For a long time... forever.
These lines read that Tatyana’s husband will not let his wife be offended. And if he even suspects the slightest encroachment on the honor of his wife, and therefore on his honor, Onegin will not be happy.
One can endlessly discuss the authenticity and encyclopedic nature of the novel. Every line in it breathes Russianness. And it doesn’t matter who or what Pushkin writes about: about girls picking berries in the Larins’ garden, or about a social reception, whether he describes a St. Petersburg ball or a provincial festival, every line of the poem shows that it depicts a really existing society.
Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" is the first Russian realistic novel, and written in verse. It became an innovative work both in form and content. Pushkin set the task not only to show in him the “hero of the time”, Onegin, a man with “premature old age of the soul”, to create the image of a Russian woman, Tatyana Larina, but also to draw an “encyclopedia of Russian life” of that era. All this required overcoming not only the narrow framework of classicism, but also abandoning the romantic approach. Pushkin strives to bring his work as close as possible to life, which does not tolerate schematicism and predetermined structures, and therefore the form of the novel becomes “free.”
And the point is not only that the author only places an “introduction” at the end of chapter 7, ironically noting: “...Even though it’s late, there is an introduction.” And it’s not even that the novel opens with Onegin’s internal monologue, reflecting on his trip to the village to his uncle for his inheritance, which is interrupted by a story about the hero’s childhood and youth, about the years spent in the whirlwind of social life. And it’s not even that the author often interrupts the plot part by placing this or that lyrical digression, in which he can talk about anything: about literature, theater, his life, about the feelings and thoughts that excite him, about roads or about women’s legs - or maybe just talk to readers: “Hm! hmm! Noble reader, / Are all your relatives healthy? No wonder Pushkin asserted: “A novel requires chatter.”
He really doesn’t seem to be creating a work of art, but simply telling a story that happened to his good friends. That is why in the novel, next to its heroes Onegin, Tatyana, Lensky, Olga, people who lived during Pushkin appear - Vyazemsky, Kaverin, Nina Voronskaya and others. Moreover, the Author himself becomes the hero of his own novel, turning out to be a “good friend” of Onegin. The author keeps letters from Onegin and Tatyana, poems by Lensky - and they, too, are organically included in the novel, without in any way violating its integrity, although they are not written in the “Onegin stanza.”
It seems that such a work - a “free novel” - can include anything, but with all the “freedom” its composition is harmonious and thoughtful. The main reason why this feeling of freedom is created is that Pushkin’s novel exists like life itself: unpredictably and at the same time consistent with a certain internal law. Sometimes even Pushkin himself was surprised at what his heroes “did”, for example, when his beloved heroine Tatyana “got married.” It is clear why many of Pushkin’s contemporaries tried to see the traits of their friends and acquaintances in the heroes of the novel - and found them! In this amazing work, life pulsates and bursts out, creating even now the effect of the reader’s “presence” at the moment the action develops. And life is always free in its many twists and turns. Such is Pushkin’s truly realistic novel, which opened the way for new Russian literature.
This question has not been finally resolved, because Pushkin himself did not leave any records about the choice of the surname Onegin. The most common version says that the poet himself could have formed the surname Onegin from a geographical name well known to him, Onega. This name is given to the Onega River, which flows into the White Sea, and the city located at its mouth. Locality with the name Onega has been known since the 16th century. Of course, we need to remember something else, similar geographical name(but with the ending o) Onego. This is the ancient Russian name for Lake Onega, a huge and beautiful body of water in the north-west of the European part of the USSR. Historical sources told scientists that the real surname Onegin also existed. It was common in northern Russia and originally meant “resident from the Onega River.” Most of the people who bore the surname Onegin were lumberjacks or raftsmen. So, for the hero of his novel in verse, Pushkin could either take a ready-made surname that he had heard or read somewhere, or create it according to the rules of Russian speech. Using such a “northern” surname, the poet may have wanted to emphasize Eugene’s severity, his cold heart, and sober, overly rational mind. Let's imagine for a moment that Evgeny Onegin would have had a different surname... It seems that, well, nothing special, because the main action and ideas of the novel would not have changed. Yes, everything would remain mostly in place. But the Russian reader would probably have perceived less figuratively those lines that speak of Onegin’s coldness and severity: “... the feelings in him cooled down early; He was tired of the noise of the world"; “Nothing touched him, He didn’t notice anything”; “They came together, Wave and stone, Poems and prose, ice and fire are not so different from each other” and other passages. In addition to this possible internal content of “coldness,” the surname Onegin has one more feature. It goes unusually well with the name. Listen: Evgeny Onegin. Both of these words have the same number of syllables. In them, the same vowel letter e bears the stress. The reverse repetition of syllables gene neg has a melodic quality. In addition, in this phrase Eugene Onegin, e and n are repeated three times. But the euphony, melody of names and titles did not play for Pushkin last role. Let us remember that when mentioning the name Tatyana for the first time in the novel “Eugene Onegin,” the poet says that it is “pleasant, sonorous.” Pushkin repeats this same argument almost verbatim in the poem “ Bronze Horseman", where the hero is named Eugene: "We will call our hero by this name. It sounds nice; My pen has been on friendly terms with him for a long time.”... So in fiction, especially in poetry, for authors it is important not only the reality of the names and surnames of the characters, but also their sound, the musical and aesthetic impression of them.
