We remember together: "Old woman Izergil", a summary

The work of Maxim Gorky is a bright page inRussian Soviet literature. From the very first steps in the artistic field, he declared himself as a talented nugget, passionately protesting against the ugly and cruel manifestations of life. The ideals of the early Gorky are the freedom of the human spirit, independence from all shackles, be it within the law or ties of kinship, as well as a passionate love for people, a thirst for serving them, a thirst for achievement.

Romantic features of Gorky prose

Early Gorky - a romantic, thanks to whichThe world of the reader includes such heroic, sparkling images as the remarkably beautiful Gypsy couple, Rada and Loiko, who love each other with all their hearts, and even more personal freedom. They chose to die, but not to submit to one another, however, the memory of their beauty and liberty remained in the legends and ignites the human imagination.

Or two more heroes, complementary and shadingcharacters, deeds and life stance - Lara, son of Orel, and Danko, son of the once free tribe. Both heroes symbolize a certain philosophy with which the writer introduces us in the story “The Old Woman Izergil”.

"Old Isergil", a summary of whichIt comes down to reflections on the meaning of life and the nature of the Feat, it has a three-part composition and is written in the form of a “story in a story.” The first story is the story of the proud and selfish Lara, from whom people turned away, and even Death herself, in punishment, refused to come for him. Being the son of a woman and an Eagle, he imagined himself higher and better than all the people of his own tribe. Beautiful as a god, Lara looked down upon the elders with cold, ice-like eyes. When the girl pushed him away, he killed her, crushing his chest with his foot. The whole tribe shuddered - for the first time they were killing a woman so cruelly and indifferently with them. And Lara calmly looked at the indignant people, independently and arrogantly answered the questions of the leaders. He was not afraid of anyone and did not think to repent. The elders did not find such an exorbitant pride what to answer. They invented a punishment for the hero - not to kill, but to expel him, as a renegade from his own ranks, and never take people into society.

As the work “The Old Woman” narratesIzergil ”, a brief summary of it, centuries passed, some generations of people were replaced by others, and Lara still wanders alone across the steppe. He worked a lot of troubles for people - at first, just like that, having fun or for the sake of sustenance: he stole women, cattle. Then, tired of himself, he did evil so that the tribesmen would kill him. The hero himself tried to kill himself, hitting the ground with all his might - but the earth did not want to take into its bowels the one who could not, in fact, be considered a man. And death avoided him. The sun and the time dried up Lara, turned into a disembodied shadow, which even now wanders restlessly on the earth, finding no shelter and rest. The first part of the story “The Old Woman Izergil”, a brief summary of which we remembered, ends with a conclusion: this is how a person was punished for pride.

This legend tells the author-narrator,on whose behalf the story is told, Izergil herself, a Bessarabian old woman, dried up and hunched up under the burden of years, whom Gorky faces in the steppes near Akkerman. She is a binding composite work, in many respects the spokesman of the author's ideas and views. And the second part of the story "The Old Woman Izergil", a brief content of it are reduced to the description of her life by the heroine.

Izergil spent stormy youth, loved a lot,traveled to different adventures. She was beautiful, strong in body and spirit, and in some ways selfish, like Lara. However, in her heart there was a thirst for achievement, bright, saturated events, and to people she was also attracted to unusual, strong and bold, real heroes. She prefers to a rich cavalier a wounded Pole, because he committed heroic acts in his life. For the love and salvation of those who are dear to her, Yzergil risks himself and even kills the guard soldier.

Summary "Old Women Izergil", her secondpart, is reduced to the words of the heroine that in our life there is always a place for feats. It is important to just want to make them. And those to whom it is not given, lazy soul, living dead, such as Lara.

And in the third part Izergil tells anothera very interesting and instructive legend - about Danko, a brave and strong handsome man who led his tribe from rotten swamps, dense forests to the expanse and light of free life.

Hero to be difficult.After all, in addition to overcoming his own fears, the hero needs to overcome the “resilience of the environment”: the disbelief of his contemporaries, ridicule and contempt, their frank persecution. Danko faced all this when he led the exhausted and disbelieved people to a new life. In order to breathe hope and confidence in a victory into people, loving them with their whole being, Danko pulls a heart out of his chest and lights up the road in pitch darkness.

The story "The old woman Izergil", a summaryit even expresses a deep and important philosophical thought. Firstly, as it is correctly said, a prophet cannot be found in his own country. So the brave young man died, and the tribe did not notice it. And only a cautious person stepped on sparks from the heart and extinguished them. Why? Likely, that no one else they ignite for such madness. After all, living in a philistine, philistine, quiet and peaceful, is much more convenient than enduring torment and hardship, even for the sake of a brighter future.

And secondly, the memory of altruist Danko and hisa hot, love-filled heart still remained. She excites people and calls them to the feat. And it is precisely in this - to live and burn for the sake of people - that Gorky sees the highest vocation of Man.