"Love for all ages"...The author of these lines is known to all. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin does not need a presentation. The novel "Eugene Onegin" is a work that has a unique creative destiny.
The history of the creation of the work "Eugene Onegin"
It was created from May 1823 to September 1830,that is more than seven years. However, work on this text was not stopped by the author until the last edition appeared in 1833. In 1837 the last author's version of the work was published. Alexander Sergeevich has no other creations that would have such a long history of creation. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" was by no means written by the author "in one go," but formed at different times of life. Four periods of creativity Alexander Sergeevich covers this work - from the southern exile to the time known as Boldinskaya autumn (1830).
All chapters from 1825 to 1832 were published asindependent parts and became great events in literary life even before the completion of the novel itself. If you take into account the intermittence, fragmentation of Pushkin's work, perhaps, it can be argued that this work for him was something like a notebook, an album. Alexander Sergeyevich sometimes calls his "notebooks" the head of his novel. Records were replenished for more than seven years with "observations of the mind of the cold" and "heart notes".
The role of the retreat of "Love of all ages is submissive" of Pushkin in the work
In the eighth chapter, Pushkin describes a new stage,which Onegin experienced in his spiritual development. Having met Tatyana in Petersburg, he changed a lot. Nothing remained in him from the previous rational and cold man. This ardent lover did not notice anything except the object of love, which is very reminiscent of Lensky. For the first time in his life Onegin experienced a real feeling, which turned into a love drama. Now Tatiana can not answer the protagonist for belated love. "Love of all ages is submissive," the author's digression from the eighth chapter, is a kind of explanation of Pushkin's psychological state of Onegin, his love drama, which is inevitable.
The hero's inner world in the eighth chapter
In the foreground in the characterization of the character, as well asbefore, there is a relation between feeling and reason. Now the mind was defeated. Eugene fell in love, not listening to his voice. The author notices with irony that Onegin almost went mad or did not become a poet. In the eighth chapter, we do not find the results of the spiritual development of this character, who finally believed in happiness and love. Not reached the desired goal Onegin, still in it there is no harmony between mind and feeling. His character leaves the author of the work unfinished, open, stressing that Onegin is capable of drastically changing his values, that he is ready for action, for action.
Onegin from nihilism comes to love
It is interesting how the author reflects on friendship andlove in retreat "Love of all ages is submissive." These verses are devoted to the relationship between friends and lovers. Two of these types of relationships between people are donkeys, on which a person is tested. They reveal its inner wealth or, on the contrary, its emptiness.
The test of friendship the main character, as you know, is notsustained. The cause of the tragedy in this case was his inability to feel. The author not without reason, commenting on the spiritual state of Onegin before the duel, notes that he could discover the feeling instead of "bristling like a beast." In this episode Onegin showed himself deaf to the voice of the heart of his friend Lensky, as well as his own.
From the false values of light, Evgeny closed,having scorned their false shine, but neither in the countryside nor in Petersburg has discovered genuine human values for themselves. Alexander Sergeevich showed how difficult is the movement of a person to understandable and simple, seemingly obvious life truths. The author shows, through what tests it is necessary to pass a person, so that the heart and mind can understand the significance and grandeur of friendship and love. From the prejudices and class limitations, inspired by idle life and upbringing, through denying not only false, but true values of life, rational nihilism, Onegin comes to the discovery of a high world of feelings, love.
Wrong interpretation of the Onegin line
The history of not only Alexander's life is astonishingSergeevich, his work, a single work, such as, for example, Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin." Even one line of the poem of this great poet sometimes lives his own life. "Love of all ages is submissive," Alexander Sergeevitch's authorial digression, quoted today very often. Often looking for in the work not the depths of Pushkin's thought, but the justification of his cowardice, the human consciousness snatches this line out of context and leads it as an argument. We begin to assert and convince others that if the poet has solved, then you can fall in love.
Love in adulthood
So common today is this idea thateven there is an explanation in the encyclopedic publications that this phrase is used to explain (justify) the manifestations of feelings between people of age already elderly. However, the first line of the stanza "Love of all ages is submissive" (the subsequent verses confirm this) is not really a permission to be carried away at any age. Quite the contrary, this is an author's warning. The next verse does not accidentally begin with the "but" union: "But young, virgin hearts ...", writes Pushkin, her impulses are beneficial, but at the turn of the years they can be very sad.
Love, indeed, can overtake and maturebut the consequences for many people who have become close will be catastrophic. Of course, this does not mean that wise Alexander Sergeyevich forbade mature people to fall in love. However, Pushkin's ideal, Tatyana, did not allow herself, after marriage, this feeling.
Why is the line we are interested in is often misinterpreted?
Researchers explain why the phrase "Love allages are submissive, "whose author, Pushkin, is often interpreted inaccurately, and also why she gained such popularity.Fame became widespread for her opera" Eugene Onegin. "Konstantin Shilovsky was the author of the libretto for her. the line immediately follows the third: "Her impulses are beneficial." That is, Shilovsky remade this passage from "Eugene Onegin." He changed the meaning in such a way that love became useful as a boy who barely saw the light, and "a fighter with a gray head." the line that interests us today is often misinterpreted.
History of the name "Gremin"
This is not the only case when in the adaptationthe content of the work changes. Operas and productions often contribute something to the artistic text. For example, the names of the characters change, new ones appear.
The novel "Eugene Onegin" does not mention the name of her husbandTatiana Larina. It is said only that Pushkin is a general in 1812. However, in Tchaikovsky's opera with the same name, he has the surname Gremin. "Eugene Onegin" is therefore better to study, based on the author's original. This is the only way to avoid misinterpretations and factual errors.
