Ordinary history. Goncharov I.A.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891)-Russian writer, critic.

“Ordinary History” (1847)-Goncharov’s first novel. He worked on him for three years, and only after the enthusiastic review of Belinsky decided to publish. For the first time, the novel was printed in the magazine "Contemporary" in 1847.

The novel tells of growing up and disappointment in his own ideals of provincial romance - Alexander Aduev. Goncharov believed that to portray only “Otradnaya in human nature means to conceal the truth...” The art, according to the writer, “should represent a person and the nelstic mirror of his stupidity, ugliness, passions... - In a word, to illuminate all the depths of life, explain its hidden foundations and to explain its hidden foundations and The whole mechanism. " It is thanks to this method of artistic image that the heroes and events in the novel acquire truthfulness and typicality.