Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a realistic writer, hisname - one of the most famous and famous names of the early twentieth century. His works "Pomegranate Bracelet", "Moloch", "Duel", "Gambrinus" (a brief summary and analysis of which will be presented below) and others entered the golden fund of Russian literature. Kuprin was a very colorful figure. He constantly craved for impressions, so he often wandered and tried himself in different industries, professions - from the dentist to the longshoreman.
Cases from their own lives became the basis formany works of Alexander Ivanovich. Much of the writer's work is imbued with compassion for people who are doomed to drag a heavy fate in a miserable, inert environment. Kuprin expressed this sympathy not only in depicting the life of the lower strata of society (the novel about the life of women of easy behavior of "Yama"), but in the images of suffering, intelligent heroes. The writer possessed not only the highest skill of a literary landscape, a visual perception of being, but also of a literary character. Speech, portrait and psychology the author studied very carefully - it is noticeable even in the depth and complexity of animal images, about which Alexander Ivanovich liked to write. The narrative in Kuprin's works is often drawn to existential problems. His reflections on the will to life, hatred and love, weakness and strength, despair recreate the spiritual world of the "little man" on the scrapping of the ages.
The drama of life
The story "Gambrinus," a summary of whichknown to everyone else on the school curriculum, was created by A. Kuprin in a confusing historical period between two revolutions that occurred in Russia. It became a vivid, realistic reflection of the inseparable interconnection of the common people with their culture. The content of the work brings to the reader the drama of the life of visitors to the beer establishment with the German name "Gambrinus" located on the famous Deribasovskaya street in Odessa. Original and vivid images of heroes, the central character among which is a unique musical nugget - talented Sashka-violinist, fill the atmosphere of that time with inimitable color and charm. The inspired and sparkling play of the musician, against the backdrop of tragic and terrible events, which stirred up all of Russia and distorted the destinies of many of its citizens, is underlined in contrast.
A man is a reed, but a thinking
Kuprin used an interesting literary technique."Gambrinus" at the heart of the plot contains an idea that touches on the eternal theme of immortality and the triumph of art over any manifestation of immorality, meanness and cruelty. An ingenious French scientist B. Pascal gave his definition of an individual to his philosophical thought: man is a reed, but a thinking reed. This thought was picked up by Kuprin and transferred to his literary work. The words of the central character that a person can be crippled, but real art will surely survive and win, are a kind of transcription of Pascal's words, sounding like the apotheosis of courage and fortitude.
Special magic
"Gambrinus" is a short story, a littlemore than twenty pages. But each phrase is permeated with a special magic and energy literary mastery of the author. The narrative excites the reader, keeping him in unflagging tension, without leaving indifferent, indifferent to the dramatic events taking place in the Russian Empire of that time. The inexorable wave of Jewish pogroms in a few days destroyed the cheerful atmosphere of respectful, benevolent relations between residents, once plunging the cheerful streets of the seaside city into a poisonous abyss of xenophobia. Kuprinovsky "Gambrinus", whose brief content can not convey the journalistic accuracy of the author, describes the acts of vandalism committed by the outrageous Black Hundreds. The author describes in sufficient detail how they drunkenly, brazenly broke into private houses, apartments, shamelessly fumbled in dressers and in beds, extorted money, demanded some vodka, then the performance of the anthem. In each descriptive line the reader feels the writer's journalistic talent.
civil position
Kuprin's civil position is unmistakableis guessed by the reader on the description of one of the key scenes, when in the midst of the pogrom the Odessa mason mercilessly kills his favorite dog Sashka the violinist. In this tragic episode with the powerful contrast expressiveness of neo-realism, the author shows the inexorable rage of the senseless and stupid anger of the people. Simple people, deceived and used by power structures and revolutionary trends for their political purposes, are the victim of future dramatic events. His outrage and pain the writer expressed not only in this work. The civic position is conveyed by the stories "Resentment" and "Brad", which Kuprin also wrote. "Gambrinus" differs from others in a special emotional and juicy style. This is the real standard of literary expression: all events and objects described by the author have a complete form, forming an internal logical connection with each other.
Evaluation of creativity
Gambrinus has receivedambiguous. A remarkable evaluation of the literary creation of Kuprin at one time was given by Leo Tolstoy, noting his vivid tonality. Maxim Gorky proposed to confer the honorary title of the singer of the revolution to the writer. However, when Kuprin emigrated abroad after the events that took place in October, the opinion about him and his work radically changed, and the writer never returned to revolutionary themes in his works. Perhaps this fact is one of the reasons why it is worth reading the story "Gambrinus". The summary can not convey the full mastery of the author.
