The river plays


VG Korolenko
The river plays
Tyulin – the hero of the story, the carrier on the river Vetluga. He has a youthful face, “almost without a beard and mustache, with expressive features,” a bassy chest voice, “slightly hoarse, as if from a strong hangover,” but there are “notes as direct and naive as this church, and this one pillar, and on the column inscription, “- says the narrator. Behind the outwardly simple story, consisting of several scenes, where the peasant suffering from drinking is transformed in the struggle with the river, which has leaped from the flood, the idea of ​​a special vital force that elevates a person arises. The explanation of this effect is difficult to relate to the opposition that exists in the story: the pilgrims on Svetloyar, the “holy lake, the invisible city of Kitezh” – and the carrier, “book folk conversations, among” mental ” peasants, and coaches, “and” Tyunin, who is spontaneous, careless, disorderly and eternally afflicted with a hangover. “Here the author unnecessarily rationalizes the narrative-unnecessarily, for Tyulin, with his unchanged” is “nothing, is self-sufficient. Like the river, he plays his own free will The story immediately gained fame, was republished many times, and Tyulin’s image drew the attention of M. Gorky, who repeatedly addressed him, but tying up Tyulin’s image with the “revolutionary moods” of the people, as Gorky did, would be a stretch. much closer to the Russian folklore tradition, to the archetypes of Emelya, Ivanushka, it can be associated with the bearers of travesty bogatyrdom in Russian literature (Kuzka in Nravakh Rasteriaevoy Street, GI Uspensky, Buninsky Zakhar Vorobyev from the same story of IA.


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The river plays