Today, on the 6th of June ,we celebrate Alexander Pushkin's birthday. Only lazy one didn't mention it today in his account anywhere. This just proves that Pushkin is indeed "наше все" - 'our everything', as we use to call him now, following the phase of some critic.
Indeed, if you ask many interesting and talented professors in Russia 'who is your favourite writer', many of them will say 'Pushkin...', and that is of course not because they didn't read anything else! Pushkin is indeed greatest poet and a real treasure of Russian literature
Let's see why. Let's read the quotations about Pushkin by the writers and critics of his time - here we will find interesting facts about him
При имени Пушкина тотчас осеняет мысль о русском национальном
поэте. В самом деле, никто из поэтов наших не выше его и не может более
назваться национальным; это право решительно принадлежит ему. В нем, как будто
в лексиконе, заключилось все богатство, сила и гибкость нашего языка. Он более
всех, он далее раздвинул ему границы и более показал все его пространство.
Пушкин есть явление чрезвычайное и, может быть, единственное явление русского
духа: это русский человек в его развитии, в каком он, может быть, явится чрез
двести лет. В нем русская природа, русская душа, русский язык, русский характер
отразились в такой же чистоте, в такой очищенной красоте, в какой отражается
ландшафт на выпуклой поверхности оптического стекла.
Н.В. Гоголь
When I think about Pushkin,
I immediately think of the idea of the
Russian national poet. In fact, none of our poets is above him. In him, as if
in the lexicon, is combined all the wealth, power and flexibility of our
language. More than anyone else, he further extended the boundaries of the language and showed all its
space. Pushkin is a phenomenon, unique phenomenon of the Russian spirit: he is a
Russian man in his development, as he might be in two hundred years. He is of
Russian spirit, the Russian soul, Russian language, Russian character reflected
in the same purity, in such beauty, in which the landscape is reflected on the
convex surface of the optical glass.
NV Gogol
It is
difficult to estimate the contribution of Pushkin in the formation of Russian literature
and Russian language. This is already the undisputed truth, and confirmed by a
wide variety of studies.
Russian
literature and Russian language is constantly experiencing the impact of the
political situation in the country. Depending on who rules a great power, began
to set up their own rules and regulations that speak about how to write or say
what books will be sold and which will fall under the ban. Language assimilated, feeling the impact of popular
dialects, as well as European language. Gradually, language and literature
acquired properties of other cultural traditions that took root in Russia, but
all were strange.
Everything has changed since then, as the
literary arena joined Alexander Pushkin. In his works, the author uses the
popular lexicon. Despite the fact that he is considered a good connoisseur of
French language, is widely established in various areas, Pushkin refers
specifically to the people's speech, using specific words or concepts. Thus, he
brings in a whole new language of communication elements that have been
forgotten or replaced by a foreign vocabulary. Pushkin understood that the
Russian language - is primarily a national treasure, and however it had been changed and distorted by the great
minds of his time, ordinary people will still speak the national language –
same that had been used by their ancestors.
In addition, the author introduces the
language of a large variety of beautiful epithets and metaphors. He imbues his
works phraseology and expressive epithets, the writer tries his readers not think
straight, and try to see the image and beauty of language and words denoting the
usual subject and ordinary action. The literary language of Pushkin became a
classic of Russian language, which was later followed by other writers.
Pushkin was
the first Russian writer who began to make experiments with the stylistic
orientation of the text. He never followed the strict framework of genre when
writing texts. Pushkin is more appealing to the notion of style, highlighting
the common features of it, playing with it, creating a unique product. In
addition, Pushkin laid the foundation of a new stylistic direction in Russia -
realism. All the writer's works are multi-faceted and diverse.
Reading
Pushkin, you hear his voice. He was the first poet who destroyed the image of a
convention of copyright: in "Ruslan and Lyudmila," "Eugene
Onegin", Pushkin speaks to the reader "on an equal footing", as
it is between close friends, all grasping at a glance
Заслуги Пушкина перед Россией велики и достойны народной признательности. Он дал окончательную обработку нашему языку, который теперь по своему богатству, силе, логике и красоте формы признается даже иностранными филологами едва ли не первым после древнегреческого; он отозвался типическими образами, бессмертными звуками на все веяния русской жизни. Он первый, наконец, водрузил могучей рукою знамя поэзии глубоко в русскую землю...
И.С. Тургенев
The merits of Pushkin for Russia are great and worth getting national recognition. He gave a final transormation to our language, which is now by its richness, power, logic and beauty of form is recognized even by foreign philologists as almost the first after the ancient Greek. He was the first, who finally hoisted the banner of poetry, deep in the Russian land by the mighty hand...
IS Turgenev
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