Notes of one young man. Herzen A.I.

We present to your attention the book “Notes of one Young Man” by Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870)-publicist, writer, philosopher of the 19th century, liberal, supporter of revolutionary transformations, one of the most prominent critics The official ideology and politics of the Russian Empire.

“Notes of one young man” is the first published work that reflected life experience and intellectual searches of the author. The young main character, an impressionable and observant intellectual, brought up on perfect and romantic ideas about reality, falls into the patriarchal town and encounters genuine - dull and prosaic - the reality of the Russian province. Herzen gracefully interprets the pathetic intonation with well -aimed and acute observations over the life and morals of Russia of the 19th century, depicted, like Gogol, in an ironic manner.