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Analysis of the story “Singers”

The story “The Singers” is part of Turgenev’s series of stories “Notes of a Hunter,” in which the narration is told from the perspective of a nobleman hunter. The central event of the “Singers” is the singing competition between Yakov Turk, a dredger from a paper mill, and a row worker from Zhizdra. But, before talking about the competition, the narrator gives several long descriptions of the scene - the village of Kolotovka: “The small village of Kolotovka<...>lies on the slope of a bare hill, cut from top to bottom by a terrible ravine, which, gaping like an abyss, winds, dug up and washed out, along the very middle of the street.” The wretchedness of the surroundings causes the narrator excruciating boredom, but it turns out that all the surrounding residents “are well aware of the road to Kolotovka: they go there willingly and often.” The reason for this is the owner of the tavern, the kisser Nikolai Ivanovich. It would seem that if Nikolai Ivanovich attracts people to a place like Kolotovka, then there must be something wonderful about it. Turgenev intrigues the reader by saying that Nikolai Ivanovich had “a special gift for attracting and keeping guests,” and gives a very detailed portrait of him, in which there is nothing remarkable and even a touch of comedy: “an unusually fat, already gray-haired man with a tear-stained face" were thin legs! On the one hand, the description of the kisser, his family, and habits creates the impression that Nikolai Ivanovich is one of the main characters (and later it turns out that N.I. takes almost no part in the action at all!), on the other hand, there is a detailed portrait of N. I., “pictures of the village”, “which at no time of the year presented a pleasant sight”, slowly build up tension. The word itself voltage appears in several places: approaching the tavern, the hunter arouses “tense, meaningless contemplation” in the children he meets; from the thin lips of Morgach, leaving the hut, “a tense smile did not leave, already in the tavern, when they drew lots for who would sing first,” “all the faces expressed tense expectation” (this “tense expectation” is expressed through the appearance of the heroes: “the Wild Master himself squinted, the little man in the tattered scroll craned his neck”).

It is characteristic that the narrator describes the rowdy’s singing objectively, without saying anything about his emotions, but only about the reaction to the singing of those around him. And when talking about Yakov’s song, the narrator describes his feelings, and they coincide with the feelings of the rest of the listeners: “I felt tears boiling in my heart and rising to my eyes;<...>I looked around - the kisser’s wife was crying, leaning her chest against the window.” Yakov’s song unites all the visitors to the tavern; the narrator, being a nobleman, says “we” to himself and ordinary men: “this sound had a strange effect on all of us.”

The rower’s song is neither lexically nor emotionally separated from the rest of the text of the story: “So, the rower stepped forward and sang in the highest falsetto.” For the rower himself, the singing did not evoke feelings; and he is worried only because he is afraid that the listeners will not like him. Yakov, when he came out, “was silent, covered himself with his hand, and when he opened his face, it was pale, like a dead man’s.” After Yakov’s song, the listeners remain silent for some time: they were so amazed by the singing. Thus, Jacob's song is separated on both sides from the rest of the text by "excited silence."

The clerk’s voice was “rather pleasant and sweet,” in Yakov’s voice “there was genuine deep passion, youth, strength, sweetness, and some kind of fascinating, carefree, sad sorrow.” Sweetness is the essence of the rower’s voice and only one of the shades of Yakov’s multifaceted voice. It is interesting that the narrator calls the rower “Russian tenore di grazia, tenore leger” (which in itself is quite contradictory), and Yakov’s voice contained a “Russian, truthful, ardent soul.” The rower's voice waved like a top, Yakov's voice evokes in the narrator's memory a completely different image - the image of a seagull on the seashore.

The rower, trying to please, “simply went out of his way”; Yakov, timid at first, began to sing and “surrendered himself entirely to his happiness.” Singing is happiness for Yakov; he doesn’t try to please anyone, he just sings.

After a while, the narrator comes to the window of the tavern and sees a drunken Yakov, humming “some kind of dance song in a hoarse voice.” Having drunk, Yakov becomes like the rower who sang the same dance song during the competition in the same hoarse voice.

The narrator, going down the hill, hears a boy shout: “Antropka! Antropka-ah! There is “joyful anger” in his voice, and on this note the story ends.

The entire story “The Singers” is built on sounds located symmetrically in mood around Yakov’s song: “the angry barking of a dog” – “the dance song of a rower with a somewhat hoarse voice” – Yakov’s song – the dance song of the hoarse Yakov – the cry of a boy, in which there is a sound of “joyful anger " The sound does not disappear; the narrator first “sounded in his ears for a long time the irresistible voice of Yakov,” and then the boy’s cry for a long time “seemed to him in the air.”

“The Singers” is a picture of a world in which there is a miracle of creativity, and the wretchedness of life, and anger, and the opportunity to see beauty in such a life.

Olga VAKHRUSHEVA
10th grade,
School No. 57, Moscow

Analysis of the story “Singers”
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The story “Singers” is part of the cycle by I.S. Turgenev "Notes of a Hunter". The peculiarity of these stories is that we are captivated by vivid descriptions: landscapes, portraits, stories of heroes. The narrator tells the story slowly, thoroughly, without missing a single detail.

In “The Singers,” he tells a simple story, but when you look closely, you notice that this story contains a living picture of the world. The singing of Yashka the Turk is the very moment when the story goes beyond its narrow boundaries. The descriptions before and after the song are in stark contrast to each other.

The landscape in the first part, before the singing, expresses melancholy and despondency: “The sun flared up in the sky, as if growing fierce, soared and burned relentlessly, the air was almost completely saturated with stifling dust.” All sounds and human voices are muffled: Morgach “babbled,... raising his thick eyebrows with effort...”, “a rattling voice was heard.” All actions are slowed down: “Oh, brother, you’re crawling, that’s right.” The colors are local, boring, expressing the deadness of everything around: “...at the very bottom, dry and yellow as copper, lie huge slabs of clay stone.”

In the second part, everything changes dramatically, poetry, movement, poetic images appear, such as a seagull, a swimmer, the steppe. The colors become brighter, the descriptions become more detailed: “in the dark blue sky, some small, bright lights seemed to be spinning through the finest, almost black dust.” Everything was transformed: “When I woke up, the scattered grass around was a little damp, pale stars were faintly blinking through the thin poles of the half-open roof. I went out, the dawn had long gone out, and the last trace was barely white in the sky...” If at first “the air was all saturated with stuffy dust,” now the trail of dawn “barely turned white,” the stars “blinked faintly,” and the warmth remaining from the night’s heat “was felt through the night’s freshness.”

In describing the daytime, sultry nature, the narrator’s gaze moves from top to bottom, as if imitating the sheep, which “with sad patience bow their heads as low as possible, as if waiting for this unbearable heat to pass.” After the singing of Yashka the Turk, the gaze not only rises upward to the sky, but its range also expands: “it (the plain) seemed even more vast and seemed to merge with the darkened sky.” ………………

Anastasia SOROTOKINA
10th grade,
School No. 57, Moscow

I. S. Turgenev’s story “The Singers” is part of a voluminous cycle of essays and short stories, united under the general title “Notes of a Hunter.” The cycle was created over many years - from 1847 to 1851 (1874 should also be mentioned, when three more stories were added to the main list of works) and the author did not immediately decide on his plan. It all started with the story “Khor and Kalinich,” created under the impression of Turgenev’s walks around the outskirts of Spassky-Lutovinoye, Oryol province. The writer indulged in hunting with pleasure, and Spassky’s landscapes and local residents with their varied customs continually fell into his field of vision. This became the basis of numerous stories, more reminiscent of essays with a detailed description of the types of peasants and people of other classes.

The story “The Singers” was created in the middle of the cycle - in 1850, when the author was well aware of why he was writing his next story based on what he saw. The stories published in the famous Sovremennik magazine became a real breakthrough in Russian literature and forced the public to reconsider their views on the modern hero of a work of fiction. For Turgenev, this is a simple person with all the details of his external appearance and inner world, habits dictated by an often difficult fate and difficult living conditions. However, the author’s task is not so much to depict ordinary people as naturalistically as possible, but to poeticize them, but without unnecessary sentimentality. Many images are shown with humor or the author's irony. But each time they are subtly and interestingly developed from a psychological point of view.

Thus, in “Singers” an interesting gallery of images of the village “Kolotovka” and its environs is born: the soul of the company and the owner of a popular drinking establishment, the kisser Nikolai Ivanovich, the ubiquitous talker and loafer nicknamed Stupid; the mysterious, but invariably respectable Wild Master; a soldier from Zhizdra with a beautiful high voice; a man “on his own” with a suspicious look, nicknamed Morgach and, finally, the winner of the singing competition Yashka-Turk.

The hero on whose behalf the story is told, the gentleman of the local district (in him we recognize Turgenev himself), as usual, acts in the story as an observer. The plot is based on simple events that unfolded in Nikolai Ivanovich’s “Prytynnaya”, at the same time, the work devotes a lot of space to a detailed description of different types. Numerous visitors come here, including candidates for victory in the singing competition - a rower from Zhizdra and Yashka-Turok. The lot fell to the rower to sing first. And he quickly amazed those present with his beautiful falsetto and complex musical passages. But the Wild Master continued to frown. His reaction remained a mystery to the master who was watching him.

Meanwhile, despite the attempts of Obalduy and sympathizers to assign victory to the rower without a fight, it was decided to hear Yashka the Turk. He was noticeably worried and even seemed to want to avoid taking the lead. But the same Wild Master strictly insisted on observing the rules of the competition.

Yasha began to sing hesitantly, his voice gradually gaining strength. But then that same Russian folk song began to sound, which is capable of turning the soul of any listener upside down. And in Yashka’s voice itself there was something both creepy and at the same time bewitching. There was not a single person in “Prytynnaya” who was not touched by this voice to the depths of his soul. And the Wild Master could not resist: a tear rolled from his eye. Thus, the unconditional victory of Yashka the Turk was won.

The ending of the work deserves special attention. The author-narrator leaves the pub, afraid to disturb the amazing impression that what he saw and heard made on him. And apparently he was right. Because later, looking out the window of the same establishment, he saw that everyone was pretty drunk, noisy and stupid. The story ends with an open ending, which makes you want to think about it. This is a lyrical digression about a boy who was looking for some Antropka, whom the lady wanted to whip. And for a long time the narrator heard this voice: “Antropka-ah! ..." Perhaps because one day the master learned the greatness of the talent of a common man and his equally bitter fate? ...

Analysis of the story “Singers”

I. S. Turgenev’s story “The Singers” is part of the famous cycle “Notes of a Hunter” and is dedicated to folk art. The central event of the story is a song competition between Yashka the Turk, who worked as a scooper at a paper mill, and Ryadchik from Zhizdra, a pockmarked, curly-haired guy of about thirty. Fate brought the narrator to a small village called Kotlovka, and then to the “Prytynny” tavern. On the threshold of the establishment, he met two men discussing the upcoming singing competition, and he himself decided

attend the event.

“Singers” is a unique work, dedicated, first of all, to the attitude of the Russian people to art. The author himself was a true connoisseur of folk art and the Russian soul, so he devoted an entire story to original singing. It shows how a song can touch people's hearts. So during the speech of Yakov Turk, whose voice was full of deep passion, youth and strength, tears appeared in people’s eyes. The narrator himself, conveying his impression of the performance he saw, noted that he could not fall asleep for a long time that evening, as Yakov’s irresistible voice sounded in his ears.

Remarkable

the fact that Turgenev in this story, as in many works of the “Notes of a Hunter” series, pays special attention to the description of the area, nature, life and customs of the local residents. He opens his story with a description of Kotlovka itself, spread out on the slope of a bare hill and completely dissected by a deep ravine. The pub “Prytynny” is located at the very head of the ravine. It is a rectangular hut covered with straw. The surrounding residents know the road here well; they often and willingly go there.

Among the guests of the tavern, the author especially highlights Morgach, Obalduy and Wild Master. Morgach is an experienced person, mindful of himself, neither good nor evil. His friend Stunned is a bachelor who has been on a spree and can neither sing nor dance. Not a single drinking party is complete without it. Wild Master is a mysterious man. No one knows where he came from or what brought him to Kotlovka. He is gloomy by nature, but a revered man in the area. He is not interested in women or wine, but only in soulful singing.

The participants in the singing competition are also interesting characters. Yakov Turok is the best singer in the area. His mother was a Turkish prisoner, which is why he received such a nickname. His voice, hysterical and exciting, grabbed the soul of even the harshest people. The rower from Zhizdra, Yashka’s rival, had no worse voice, but it didn’t touch the soul as much. The curious gallery of images is completed by the owner of the drinking establishment, the kisser Nikolai Ivanovich. Thanks to his natural charm and sincere attitude, many district residents come to the “Prytynny” tavern.

The narrator of the story is the gentleman of the local district. In him we recognize the writer himself. He, as always, has the role of observer. At the end of the work, he leaves the village, singing in his hearts the talent of the common man. The story ends with an open ending, which makes you involuntarily think about the continuation. In any case, the author's main goal was achieved. He, as he wanted, conveyed to the reader the strength of the talent of Russian people from the outback and the idea of the doom of this talent.

Analysis 2

The work “Singers” is included in the cycle of stories by Turgenev “Notes of a Hunter”. The author set himself the task of revealing the image of a common man. He also Turgenev shows the viewer a picture of the life of the Russian people, for whom he felt love and bitterness about his fate.

The author, with his characteristic irony, introduces us to his heroes, whose images are developed so subtly and vividly that each of us seems to find ourselves in the shoes of the characters. Here we see the residents of the village “Kolotovka”: here is Nikolai Ivanovich, the soul of every company and the owner of his own drinking establishment, here we see the local loafer Obalduya, next to him stands the Wild Master, arousing genuine respect from everyone who dares to speak to him, we are near him we notice a strange man, nicknamed Morgach, and in the end our gaze falls on the winner of the singing competition, Yashka the Turk.

The narration is told on behalf of the master of the local district - the Narrator. The plot takes place in Nikolai Ivanovich's drinking house, where a huge number of people gather, including the contestants of the singing competition - Yashka the Turk and the rower from Zhizdra. The rower comes first. He amazes the audience with his beautiful voice. But the Wild Master looks at the singer gloomily, his reaction remains a mystery to the viewer. Obalduy and a number of listeners want to give victory to the rower without any fight, but Yashka the Turk still decide to listen. Yashka is significantly worried, and even wants to avoid performing, but the Wild Master strictly follows the rules of the action and Yashka the Turk still has to sing. Yasha begins his song with an uncertain voice, but gradually it seems to gain some exceptional strength. And then a song from Russian folklore began to sound. A song close to the soul of every Russian person. There is something eerie in Yashka’s voice, but at the same time captivating the listener’s ears. The song touched every person who was in the pub that day. Even a tear rolled down from the Wild Master’s eye. Thus, the victory was unanimously awarded to Yashka-Turk.

It is not the final scene of the work that deserves special attention. The narrator quietly leaves the establishment, fearing to disturb the wonderful feeling that settled in his soul after hearing the song. And he didn’t do it in vain. Because a little later, looking through the open window, the Narrator sees that there is not a drop of his former life left - all the people, like one, were drunk. The open ending in the work makes us think. Let us remember the digression about the boy who is looking for a certain Antropka, whom the evil lady wants to punish. Did Turgenev really mean by this that even the master himself, with just one song, was able to understand the whole sad fate of a talented, but poor man?

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Turgenev’s “Singers” is included in the middle of the cycle of stories “Notes of a Hunter” (“a cycle” this work is called on the basis that the personality of the narrator, in many ways identical to the author himself, is present in all the stories, and also because the writer composed these works, perceiving them as a single whole). It embodies the features of the author’s style that are characteristic of the entire collection, the main of which are rightfully considered to be descriptions of landscapes, the figure of the narrator, psychologism (a way of revealing the characters’ characters) and, of course, close attention to the ordinary Russian man and his fate.

Having become familiar with this work, the reader will undoubtedly be able to form an impression both of the entire cycle of stories and of the prose of Turgenev, the great master of Russian literature, in general. It was thanks to his skill in writing stories that he became famous not only in Russia, but throughout Europe during his lifetime.

“Singers” was written by Turgenev in the midst of work on the collection - in 1850, when the author was already clearly aware of the social and aesthetic significance of the future cycle, within the framework of which he created the stories. This means that each work reflects, to one degree or another, the specifics of “Notes of a Hunter” as a whole, and they must be perceived as a whole, as Turgenev himself did.

This story was created at a time when the majority of peasants existed under the yoke of serfdom (abolished only in 1861 by decree of Alexander II, who, by the way, read “Notes of a Hunter”), in a destructive social and natural environment (remember the ravine around which the village of Kotlotovka is located from "The Singers") The prerequisites for the disintegration of the landlord system of land tenure already existed, echoes of which are also found in this collection.

Genre and direction

“The Singers” by Turgenev is a story. It is characterized by everything that is typical of other examples of the genre: a small number of storylines (in this case, one), characters (in this case, nine), solvable problems (in this case, two, not counting varieties).

Turgenev in “Notes of a Hunter” sought to plausibly and realistically portray the life of the Russian people, first of all, ordinary people. This intention is consistent with what the natural school did.

Composition

The work begins with an extensive exposition (a part that introduces the reader to the main characters and their surroundings before the plot unfolds). It tells about the landscape specifics of the location of the village of Kolotovka (it is located on a hill divided by a ravine, it divides the village in half), about the heart of the village - a drinking establishment, the owner of which is one of the main characters - Nikolai Ivanovich.
Then the author moves on to the plot: the narrator comes to the village and finds out that in the tavern there will be a competition between the row singers (this is a profession; employer of workers) and Yashka the Turk, and this piques his interest, so he goes to listen.
The main part, which consists only of preparations for the competition and the performance of the rower, is expanded by the narrator due to the characteristics of the characters anticipating the performance of the singers in the tavern.
The climax is Yashka’s amazing performance and victory.
At the denouement, the narrator leaves the tavern and leaves the village of Kolotovka.

The composition of Turgenev’s story “The Singers” is mirrored: at the beginning the main character comes to the village on a scorching day, in the end he leaves the village on a cool night (images of day - night, weather conditions of heat - cool, the very actions of the hero at the beginning and at the end of the work are opposite). As with many of the stories in Notes of a Hunter, the writer does not concentrate on the plot; its development occupies a small part of the volume of the work. Most of it is occupied by landscapes and personal characteristics of the characters.

The main characters and their characteristics

The images of singers in Turgenev's story play a key role in the plot plan.

The description of the rower given by the narrator himself is as follows:

As for the clerk, whose fate, I admit, remained unknown to me, he seemed to me a resourceful and lively city tradesman.

Turgenev also reveals his character through his cool and self-confident behavior before the competition.

The narrator reports the following about another singer:

Yakov, nicknamed the Turk because he actually descended from a captive Turkish woman, was like him - an artist in every sense of the word, and by rank - a scooper at a merchant's paper mill.

He, unlike the rower, is exhausted from excitement before the competition and shows uncertainty.

These heroes are contrasted by social status (the rower is rich, Yashka is poor), by their behavior before the performance, one has a name, and the other does not. But the most important difference between them is their singing. The rower sings in such a way that it is interesting to listen to him, but Yakov’s magnificent singing makes the men cry and touches the soul. The line between performers lies in the same place as the line between entertainment and art.

However, in comparison with other characters (Obalduy, Morgach, Nikolai Ivanovich, Wild Master), the narrator reports very little about these two, without delving into their biography. Turgenev in “Notes of a Hunter” wanted, first of all, to show the nobles (only they read him) that simple Russian peasants also have complex, sometimes unusual characters, have a soul, that they are the same people as Turgenev’s readers, who make up a single Russian people.

Topics and issues

The most significant theme of the story is the theme of music or, more broadly, the theme of art, revealed by a plot collision. Accordingly, the following issues are associated with it:

The influence of music on a person- when Yakov sings, he touches the subtlest strings of the souls of his listeners, gives them the opportunity to feel, experience beauty (this problem can be reformulated: the influence of art on a person, the influence of beauty on others);
The problem of genius— Yakov is poor, has a low social status, but has something more significant - the ability to influence people’s emotions by singing (the role of talent in the life of society).

the main idea

The idea of Turgenev’s story “The Singers”: there is a clear line separating beauty from ordinary entertainment. Yakov’s performance not only surpassed that of the rower, it was fundamentally different in that it directly affected the souls of those around him, it was not just a pleasant sight, it was truly beautiful.

The meaning of Turgenev’s story “The Singers”: beauty is a light flicker in the darkness of everyday life, and after contact with beauty it is painful for a person to return to the stuffy darkness of life. This is exactly what the narrator feels after the performance, so he leaves the tavern before Yakov and other men begin to celebrate and get drunk, that is, before Yakov turns from a translator of the inexpressible back into a scooper, Yashka the Turk.

Means of artistic expression

Turgenev's skill as a storyteller lies in depicting refined landscapes and psychologism (revealing the inner world of characters through speech and behavior). The author seeks to understand the essence of the described phenomenon. It was this desire to display the smallest details of the life depicted that made him a great writer.

Turgenev's style in The Singers is characterized by an abundance of epithets and comparisons.

The landscape, the landscape of a village divided in half by a ravine, seems to symbolize the wound that the narrator felt when returning from the depths of his soul to everyday existence.

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