Officers and gentlemen. In I.

In the novel “Officers and Gentlemen” (1955), whose action takes place during the Second World War in London, in the Hebrides, in Alexandria and Crete, the English writer Ivlin talks about the fate of Lieutenant Gai Cruchbek serving in the royal The body of the halberdshchikov. Known for its tendency to pass the killer-ironic sentences not only from delicious characters, but also to the entire classes, the author remains true to himself: the beauty and pride of Britain-its army-is in front of his merciless satirical gaze. Life and morals of the military environment, with its bureaucracy, careerism, official reading and corruption, stupidity, pomp, cowardice and sometimes meaningless cruelty of officers who are who hastily calling the “builders of the empire”, challenges the romantic ideals of Cruchbek, who strives to become a real soldier, and little by little They bring him to the awareness of the illusoryness of his dreams of valor, exploits, heroism and service to the Fatherland...