Spirituality, beauty, harmony - people have been arguing and thinking about them for thousands of years. The answer has not yet been found. But who can give a verbal definition of what we see and feel? Gleb Uspensky (“Straightened”) is trying to explain this in the notes of the ridiculous Tyapushkin. The summary describes the thoughts of how and why this is how we live. And what is a man? What is honor, dignity? And how to save them?
In a remote village
The unfortunate Tyapushkin teaches in a bear corner forgotten by God and people. He lives in a cold, alkaline hut, which is drowned with raw carbon monoxide. He sleeps on a makeshift bed, hiding in a torn sheepskin coat. He has no bedding. But fleas - please!
Yesterday, he was in the city and made sure that the life of an educated society was completely false and hypocritical. This completely killed his tormented soul. Only on the platform she came to life, faced with a living life; a huge crowd of new recruits quickly, without allowing them to say goodbye, was pushed into the cars. Everyone shouted and cried. Young men were torn rudely and unceremoniously from their usual native life. It is all over. Everyone went to heal the wounds. And this clash of urban pretense and real pain cut through Tyapushkin’s heart.
Thus begins the story of the Assumption. “Straightened” (summary) story will consist in a discussion of the meaning of existence) - in the focus of our attention. In his cold, unheated hut, Tyapushkin felt even more alien and his own troubles and sorrows. Flooding the stove, he finally fell asleep with a keen sense of enduring misfortune. Even through a dream, he felt it. Suddenly, in a dream, something good and joyful broke out. Tyapushkin’s subconscious mind works continuously, as Ouspensky shows (“Straightened up”). Summary story allows you to hope for happiness. Tyapushkin's eyes opened, memories went.
The images
The hero recalled the hot haymaking. Okay village woman is raising hay. How harmonious she was! She merged with the sun, and with the breeze that helped her to stir, and with hay, and with the vastness of the field and sky. And here is another, strict image of a young, sad, self-contained girl. But her grief is not only her own, but as if gathered the sadness of the world, and harmony is also poured in it. She can be found in everything, if you look closely, assures Uspensky (“Straightened”). The summary tells about the highest harmony, which the ancients were able to see and realize. And what could be higher and more harmonious than the Venus of Milos, which Tyapushkin saw twelve years ago in the Louvre?
Paris
He was assigned to observe, look after the children and answer their questions, to which the parents themselves could not find a worthy answer. But quite by accident Tyapushkin alone wandered into the Louvre. Gleb Uspensky shows his complete denseness and dullness from the seen exhibits.
Tyapushkin was tired, noisy in his head, and by no means did he care about anything. And suddenly joy poured into the soul - he saw
Venus of Milos. He was like a deflated balloon, like a crumpled glove.
And suddenly, like why, Tyapushkin did not understand, he perked up, came to life, straightened his back, squared his shoulders and froze, looking at the eternal harmony that was full of the whole being of Venus. Gleb Uspensky talks about the wonderful instant transformation of a dull creature in Man. Then Tyapushkin came to the Louvre more than once or twice to understand what was happening to him. Why is it so filled with calm and freshness? But the mystery remained incomprehensible. Only for a while did he himself become another person who knows how to see beauty in big and small things, to have compassion and be merciful. This story is narrated "Straightened."
Polemic with feta
Athanasius Fet with the enthusiasm of a true poet sees this sculpture. She inspired him with soulful lines. His emotions are very vivid and can not be compared with cold reasoning about what a person is. Fet simply admires the beauty created by an unknown master. He is filled with pure enthusiasm for perfect harmony embodied in marble. It subtly captures the minute mood and inspires the reader with the mood from what he saw. Reasonableness is not his element.
Assumption is important to the completely different - the way a work of art transforms a person. To what heights of the spirit does it raise it. The character of Ouspensky in fragments recalls the poem of Fet, but does not agree with him. He finds androgyny in Venus, in modern terms. That is, each person, both man and woman, will see in her his own, intimate, moral, exalted.
This is the story "Straightened." The analysis says that these two different judgments complement each other, although there is controversy between them.