Before sunrise

Is it possible to change your own essence, your own “I”?

Is it possible for a person crushed by grief and longing or by nature prone to melancholy, to deliberately educate in himself what is now customary to call a fashion phrase “ Positive thinking. ”

, from his first literary steps, Zoshchenko turned to this problem - both on his own personal experience, and relying on the teachings of Freud and Pavlov - and the result was a wonderful book“ Before the Sun ”, combining The art-memoir and scientific. Once and again, Zoshchenko sortices and analyzes the sad memories of the former - children's sorrows and fears, unrequited youthful love, the tragic death of a friend, the horrors of war, the years of poverty and misunderstanding - and again and again and again and again and again and again to force himself to become another person - bright And new. But what turned out to be the result of his efforts?