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“Before sunrise” Zoshchenko in brief summary

Autobiographical and scientific story “Before sunrise” – a confessional story about how the author tried to defeat his melancholy and the fear of life. He considered this fear to be his mental illness, and not at all a feature of talent, and tried to overcome himself, to inspire himself with a childlike, cheerful world view. To do this, it was necessary to get rid of children’s fears, to overcome the gloomy memories of youth. And Zoshchenko, recalling his life, discovers that almost all of it consisted of impressions of gloomy and heavy, tragic and saddening.

There are about a hundred story chapters in the story, in which the author is just sorting through his gloomy memories: here is the silly suicide of a peer student, here is the first gas attack on the front, that’s unfortunate love, but love is successful but quickly bored… The love of his life is Nadya V., but she marries and emigrates after the revolution. The author tried to console

himself with a novel with a certain Alya, an eighteen-year-old married very uncommon rule, but her falsity and stupidity finally bored him. The author saw war and still can not cure the consequences of poisoning with gases. He has strange nervous and heart attacks. He is haunted by the image of a beggar: most of all he is afraid of humiliation and poverty, because in his youth he saw to what meanness and meanness the depicting beggar poet Tinyakov came. The author believes in the power of reason, in morality, in love, but all this is falling apart before his eyes: people are falling, love is doomed, and what kind of morality is there – after all that he saw at the front in the first imperialist and civilian? After the hungry Petrograd in 1918? After the gagging hall in his speeches?

The author tries to look for the roots of his gloomy worldview in childhood: he remembers how afraid of thunderstorms, water, how late he was taken from his mother’s breast, how alien and frightening the world seemed to him, as in his dreams the motif of the terrible, grasping hand was repeated persistently… As if all

these children’s complexes the author is looking for a rational explanation. But with the nature of his character, he can do nothing: it was the tragic world perception, the sick pride, many disappointments and spiritual traumas that made him a writer with his own, unique angle of view. Completely Soviet-led irreconcilable struggle with himself, Zoshchenko is trying on a purely rational level to convince himself that he can and should love people. The origins of his mental illness are seen in childish fears and subsequent mental overstrain, and if you can still do something with fears, then with mental overstrain, the habit of writing can not do anything. This is the soul’s storehouse, and the forced rest, which Zoshchenko regularly arranged for himself, does not change anything here. Speaking about the need for a healthy lifestyle and a healthy worldview, Zoshchenko forgets that a healthy worldview and the incessant joy of life is the lot of idiots. Rather, he forces himself to forget about it.

As a result, “Before sunrise” is transformed not into a story about the triumph of reason, but in the artist’s painful report of a useless struggle with himself. Born to compassion and empathy, morbidly sensitive to everything gloomy and tragic in life, the author tries in vain to assure himself that he can bring up a cheerful and cheerful worldview. With such a world view, it makes no sense to write. The whole story of Zoshchenko, her entire artistic world, proves the primacy of artistic intuition over reason: the artistic, novelistic part of the story is beautifully written, and the author’s comments are just a mercilessly honest account of a completely hopeless attempt. Zoshchenko tried to commit a literary suicide, following the dictates of the hegemons, but, fortunately, did not succeed in this. His book remains a monument to the artist,

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