Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time" is a philosophical and psychological work and is very non-standard in its compositional structure. It consists of five novellas, not arranged in chronological order and, accordingly, cannot have a culminating denouement as such. and even so, this novel has an ending. Moreover, he is even optimistic.
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Mikhail Lermonotov's novel "A Hero of Our Time" stands apart in Russian literature of the nineteenth century. The originality of the compositional construction of this undoubtedly brilliant work and the philosophical depth of the topic under study are the main reason for this. Having written this work, a very young poet was able to prove that he is also a talented prose writer.
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Any literary novel usually ends with a climactic denouement of the plot. But the point is that there is not even a tie in "A Hero of Our Time". Each of the five stories has its own storyline, which is united into a common whole by one main character. Moreover, these stories are not arranged in chronological order. The hero even dies in the middle of the novel.
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And yet the story "Fatalist" is the fifth in a row for a reason. If we take into account the philosophical essence of the novel, then this is probably not even a story, but an epilogue. The natural result of the emotional torments of the protagonist Pechorin.
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It should be borne in mind that throughout the entire novel Pechorin in his life professes two incompatible hypostases: "you cannot escape fate" and "man makes his own fate." And it is in Fatalist that this insoluble contradiction is resolved, as it were.
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In the beginning, Pechorin arranges a cynical experiment with the complete fatalist Vulich. With his mockery, he forces him to risk his life completely recklessly - to shoot himself in the temple with a pistol. And after the misfire, Vulich does not cease to pester Vulich further. Pechorin, as if trying with all his might to achieve his death. After all, had he left the reckless peace, he would not have got up earlier from the card table and would not have been hacked to death by a drunken Cossack.
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And now, after this tragedy, Pechorin appears before the reader as a man of bold decisive action. To those around him, he explains his act with a desire to try fate. After all, according to the prediction, he must die from an evil wife. But in his actions there is a cold calculation. He asks the captain to distract the armed violent Cossack locked in the house by talking through the window. He calculates the speed and agility of his actions.
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Yes, the shot rang out. But the bullet went by. Pechorin is on top. If you remember his state of inactive doom throughout all four previous stories, then immediately becomes obvious all the importance for him of this bold act.
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Yes, the shot rang out. But the bullet went by. Pechorin is on top. If we recall his state of inactive doom throughout all four previous stories, then immediately becomes obvious all the importance for him of this bold act.
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Pechorina Lermontov kills in the middle of his novel. This feature of the compositional construction of the work makes it optimistic. The poet, as it were, calls on his contemporary, lost in life, to take decisive action. Only decisiveness can save him from despair.
