Agashina Diana

The review of A.S. Green’s novel “Running on the Waves” corresponds to the structure of the genre, is not a simple retelling of the text, there are elements of analysis of the work.

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Section “In the world of children's literature. “When we open a book, we open the world.” Anniversary books in 2016.

REVIEW

based on the book by A.S. Green “Running on the Waves”

completed : student of grade 6 “B”

MBOU "School No. 178" Samara

Agashina Diana

supervisor : Russian teacher

Language and literature Gagarina O.V.

Samara, 2016

I think many people associate the name of Alexander Stepanovich Green with the story “Scarlet Sails”. I really liked this book too. Such a gentle and “light” Assol, completely different from all the people who surrounded her. And handsome Gray, I think, is the dream of many girls. He is so brave, responsible, courageous and capable of actions that are incomprehensible to ordinary people, but from which you immediately come to delight.

Having learned that there was another book by this author in my library, I became interested in it. This is the novel "Wave Runner". The name itself already speaks of some kind of magic. Besides, I once heard such an expression in a song. In general, I decided to read this novel.

I will not hide that at first I found the book a little boring. But the more I read, the more interesting I was about what would happen next. And when the novel came to an end, I was a little upset that I would no longer be able to be in such a wonderful atmosphere.

This work raises such important and always relevant issues as love and self-denial, truth and lies, fear and overcoming it, fortitude and the inability to rise above the vanity of life.

The events in the novel take place either in Lissa, or at sea on the ship “Running on the Waves,” or on the ship “Nyrok,” or in the city of Gel-Gyu, or in Leg. But in any case, all actions take place in deep connection with the sea.

The main character of the work is Thomas Harvey, who is looking for his Unfulfilled. He accidentally sees a beautiful girl in the seaport. He later learns that her name is Biche Seniel. Harvey wants to find her at all costs, and goes on a journey across the sea with the not very friendly captain of a ship with the telling name “Wave Runner”.

This phrase is the center of the story. Every time we hear or see it in a new and new guise. This is either a ship, or a certain girl from a legend, or a statue in a port city.

Another feature of the novel is that the reader, together with the hero of the work, involuntarily returns to something that, it would seem, will no longer be possible to find out. In real life, we rarely find out what happened to a person who was once close to us. But in the book, Harvey learns about the death of the ship “Running on the Waves”, about the further fate of Beach Seniel, about Desi, with whom he parted in a different way than he would have liked.

If we talk about the plot, it revolves around the journey by sea of ​​Thomas Harvey, to whom Dr. Filatr prescribed a change of scenery after an illness.

Harvey, as in any adventure novel, goes through many trials before meeting his future wife. And only from the last chapters of the novel do we learn that Harvey realized that he had always been looking for Desi. It was the memory of her that always warmed his soul. I'm very glad that everything ended so well. Desi and Harvey are married, live in the house of their dreams, can host friends and openly say what they think without hiding the truth.

Another feature of the work is that we almost all the time hear what the main character thinks, what feelings he experiences. This moment, I think, greatly distinguishes the book from any movie. Where it is not always clear how the hero really feels.

“I shuddered - the blood rushed into my temples. A sigh of more than one amazement - a greater, more complex feeling - delayed the beating of my loudly then speaking heart. I took a breath twice before I could once again read and understand these amazing words that rushed into my brain like a volley of arrows.” This describes the moment when Harvey accidentally saw the name of the ship, which just recently suddenly very clearly popped up in his brain.

“While these explanations were taking place, I was so stunned, confused and contradictory in my thoughts that, although I avoided looking at Biche for a long time, I still asked her with my eyes. Unnoticed by others, and immediately her look told me exactly: “No.” It talks about the feelings that Harvey experienced when he was in the hotel room where he discovered Geza's corpse.

Some duality can also be seen in the fact that Biche and Desi are wearing the same dresses at the carnival. Harvey confuses them.

This duality is not just symbolic, it resembles the complexity of the character of almost any real person. After all, sometimes we are in such a hurry to believe in something magical, and sometimes we do not notice the beauty of the things around us, looking at the world indifferently. So Beach cannot believe in the existence of Frezi Grant, and Harvey does not want to give up his principles, distort the truth to please even the woman he loves.

It is also interesting that Frezi Grant is the most unreal woman, but she speaks like ordinary people. But Harvey sees Beach as something unreal, she seems to be floating above this dirty environment in which she found herself by accident. And when speaking or thinking about Desi, Harvey always remembers the feeling that remains from contact with something unusual.

Almost all the characters in the book are ambivalent. Even Captain Gez showed himself to be a very contradictory person. He either plays cards, having gotten pretty drunk, or plays the violin quite decently, or practically throws Harvey into the open sea, or tells Beach about his love for her.

But still, the passion for profit, for easy and dishonest money destroys Gez and his assistant Butler, who kills his captain.

The language of the novel is also worthy of praise. Greene resorts to comparisons very often. For example: “Among the men there were two old men. The first, resembling an overweight, grinning bulldog, with his elbows wide apart, was smoking, rolling a huge cigar in his mouth; the other laughed..."; “He rushed after me like a dog”; “I liked her like a warm wind in my face; “I was lost, like a stone falling into water.”; “Like marble in the beam, her hand sparkled.”

There are also metaphors in the novel. For example: “I stunned myself with such a portion of whiskey that I myself would have considered monstrous at another time, and buried myself in bed...”; “the chorus of thoughts flew by and died down”; “in the distance above us a light avalanche of the east began to move, sending bright spears of advancing fire hidden by the clouds.”

There are also epithets: “wild night”, “sudden beauty”, “in its greedy hope”, “an elegant black car among that colorful and deafening traffic”.

The details of the characters’ portraits play a special role. They give a very accurate description of their owner.

“I stopped the woman. A fat, loud woman of about forty with a scarf tied around her head and a brush in her hands, having learned that we were inquiring whether Gez was at home, frantically pointed to the opposite door at the far end. “Is he at home? I don’t and don’t want to know!” she announced, quickly pushing stray dirty hair onto the floor of her handkerchief with her fingers and becoming excited.” The portrait of Ghez also evokes some disgust: “his profile went from the roots of his hair with a thrown back, nervous forehead - an almost vertical line of a long nose, a dreary upper lip and a stubbornly protruding lower lip - to a heavy, steeply turned chin. The line of a flabby cheek, propping up an eye, was connected below with a gloomy mustache.”

There is a lot of dialogue in the novel, which gives the story a certain realism, even when Harvey talks to Frezi Grant.

Another feature of the novel is that even seemingly insignificant people are capable of great deeds. Like, for example, Cook, who at first seemed to me a gossip and a bore. But later we learn that he died (“he was shot during an attack on the Graca Parana house”). Death for a statue... Not every person is capable of this.

After reading the book, I wanted to know what the critic thought about this novel, how he understood the essence of the work.

“During his life, Greene saw a lot of grief and people crushed by life. He saw even more disfigured souls, a universal disease of lack of spirituality, the consequence of which was various vices and flaws: individualism, insensitivity to beauty, selfishness, mutual understanding. Green wanted to see people differently, better; he envisioned the ideal of a harmonious person, a free personality with a rich spiritual life, with a developed sense of beauty, with respect for the inner world of others.”

Critic V. Kharchev calls this novel “the most bizarre and mysterious, enigmatic and magical.”

I would advise all girls to read “Running on the Waves” by A.S. Green. Boys will also find many interesting moments in it, but I think they are far from understanding the book, because it teaches not only courage, but also the ability and desire to see beauty where others do not notice it. And for modern boys, sacrificing something for girls is difficult. Therefore, it is difficult to feel the inner beauty of a person, a girl. But Harvey didn’t even regret at all that he had given so much money to Gez for him to take him on his ship. And Gavrey did not feel sorry for the money, with which he bought and built (with the help of Toval) a dream house for Desi.

This book made me think about very complex, adult questions. Why is it so difficult to stay the course and not obey the opinion of the majority? How to make your life more interesting and notice the beauty and miracles around you? How to learn to trust again the people who betrayed you once? Why is real life sometimes like a carnival of bustle, and why can a person’s rich inner life go unnoticed?

Read the novel “The Wave Runner” and you will find something of your own in it that you have not yet understood or that you have not yet had time to think about. Enjoy your reading, dear people!

“Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life, the Unfulfilled calls us, and we look around, trying to understand where the call came from. Then, waking up in the midst of our world, painfully realizing and cherishing every day, we peer into life with our whole being, trying to see if the Unfulfilled will begin to come true? Isn’t its image clear now? Isn’t it now only necessary to reach out to grab and hold its faintly flickering features? Meanwhile, time passes, and we sail past the high, foggy shores of the Unfulfilled, talking about the affairs of the day? "

A. Green, "Running on the Waves"

Green arrived in Feodosia in May 1924 and began to live by the sea. The six Feodosian years turned out to be unusually fruitful in his creative biography. His most significant works were born there: the stories “The Shining World” in 1924, “The Golden Chain” in 1925, “Running on the Waves” in 1928, “Jessie and Morgiana” in 1929, as well as a series of short stories. He lived in a rented apartment with an ascetic environment, and in the clearing of the street he could see the sea. The whistles of ships could be heard from there, and the blue of the evening could be seen through the closed shutters. In the story “Running on the Waves,” Alexander Green wrote: “I settled in an apartment on the right corner of the building on Amilego Street, one of the most beautiful streets of Lissa. The house stood at the lower end of the street... behind the dock, a place of ship debris and silence, broken, not too intrusively, by the language of the port day, softened by distance.” It seems that Alexander Green was talking about himself, about the apartment where he settled in September 1924 and lived for several years, where his best books were written. Here he invented an entire country called Greenland, and populated it with characters who bore strange names and lived in cities with the same exotic names. “He remained distrustful of reality throughout his life,” Konstantin Paustovsky later wrote. “He always tried to get away from her, believing that it was better to live with elusive dreams than with the “trash and rubbish” of every day.”

Running on the waves

The sea knows many legends. Green added one more to them: about a girl gliding through the waves as if through a ballroom, and about a ship named after her. A special fate awaited anyone who stepped onto the deck of this ship...

"Frezi stood there, biting her lip. At that time, as luck would have it, the young lieutenant took it into his headgive her a compliment. “You are so light,” he said, “that if you wanted, you could run across the water to the island without getting your feet wet.” What do you think? “Have it your way, sir,” she said. “I have already promised myself to be there, I will keep it or die.” And so, before they had time to stretch out their hand, she jumped up on the railing, thought, turned pale and waved her hand to everyone. “Farewell!” said Frezi. “I don’t know what’s happening to me, but I can’t retreat.” With these words she jumped off and, screaming, stood on the wave like a flower.
No one, not even her father, could say a word, everyone was so amazed. She turned around and smiled and said, “It’s not as hard as I thought.
- Tell my fiancé that he won’t see me again. Farewell to you too, dear father! Farewell, my homeland!"
While this was happening, everyone stood as if tied up. And so, from wave to wave, jumping and skipping, Frezi Grant ran to that island. Then the fog fell, the water trembled, and when the fog cleared, neither the girl nor that island was visible, as it rose from the sea and sank back to the bottom."

(Alexander Green)

"Novel-dream. Novel-flight. Novel-mirage.

Green carefully released him into life with this special feeling,
settled in your heart, - with a feeling of Touching the Miracle.
"Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life,
The unfulfilled is calling us, and we look around, trying to understand
where did the call come from? Then, waking up in the midst of his world,
painfully realizing and cherishing every day,
we peer into life, trying with all our being
to see if the Unfulfilled is beginning to come true?”
Each of us knows what it is like, his Unfulfilled,
each of us is waiting for him. But will that desired hour come?
It might be worth following Green's other advice:
"I understood one simple truth. It is to do this
so-called do-it-yourself miracles. When the main thing for a person is to receive the dearest nickel, it is easy to give this nickel, but,
when the soul conceals the grain of a fiery plant - a miracle,
give him this miracle if you are able.
He will have a new soul and you will have a new one.
When the warden himself releases the prisoner,
when the billionaire gives the scribe a villa,
an operetta singer and a safe, and the jockey will hold the horse at least once
for the sake of another horse who is unlucky -
then everyone will understand how pleasant it is, how inexpressibly wonderful.
But there are no less miracles: a smile, fun, forgiveness, and the right word spoken at the right time.
To own this is to own everything."

Artist Arthur Braginsky

Everything will now go differently than before...

(what is the poem about, what is the author trying to convey to the reader, is there a plot, what images does the author create). 4. Composition of a lyrical work. - determine the leading experience, feeling, mood reflected in the poetic work; - how the author expresses these feelings, using the means of composition - what images he creates, which image follows which and what it gives; - is the poem permeated with one feeling or can we talk about the emotional picture of the poem (how one feeling flows into another) - does each stanza represent a complete thought or does the stanza reveal part of the main thought? The meaning of the stanzas is compared or contrasted. Is the last stanza significant for revealing the idea of ​​the poem, does it contain a conclusion? 5. Poetic vocabulary, what means of artistic expression does the author use? (examples) Why does the author use this or that technique? 6. The image of the lyrical hero: who is he? (the author himself, the character), Don’t frighten me with a thunderstorm: The roar of spring storms is cheerful! After the storm, the azure shines more joyfully over the earth, After the storm, looking younger, In the brilliance of new beauty, The flowers bloom more fragrant and more magnificent! But bad weather frightens me: It’s bitter to think that Life will pass without grief and without happiness, In the bustle of daytime worries, That life’s strength will fade Without struggle and without labor, That the damp, dull fog will hide the Sun forever!

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The romance of the sea, the mysterious stories of ships, and mysterious sailor legends lie at the heart of “Running on the Waves,” a novel that constitutes the apotheosis of Green’s romanticism. Here it permeates everything - the characters of the positive heroes, their worldview, their attitude towards each other, and pictures of nature, the carnival, and the description of the sculpture “Running”. The main characters of the work are sharply divided into two camps. Some - and all the author’s sympathies are on their side - are romantics in their soul, in their perception of life: Thomas Harvey, Dzzi, Frezi Grant, the townspeople guarding the sculpture of the “Running Woman”; others are prosaic, thoughtful natures: Bice Seniel, Tobbogan, the city's rich, seeking to destroy the monument. These sober-minded people, devoid of imagination and a poetic attitude to life, are one-sided and callous. They live in the real world, everything for them has its own specific, direct or indirect, value, everything must be logical and clear. The smart, but too rational girl Beach cannot believe in the existence of Frezi Grant, the girl from the legend, the patroness of sailors. How many times does she repeat: “It didn’t happen, Harvey.” “It was,” he replies, “and this is the reason for their divergence.” Tobbogan, looking at the cheerful, riotous carnival in honor of the city’s centenary, thoughtfully says: “Just think what kind of money wasted on trifles... if you gave me one thousandth of this ruined money, I would build a house and start a good farm” - and The enthusiastic, romantic Daisy leaves him. Romantics live completely differently in this world. They are inspired by a power “more commanding than passion or mania” - the power of a dream, a romantic expectation of happiness, “the power of the Unfulfilled,” as Harvey calls this feeling. It guides a person, and, obeying it, he commits actions that would seem meaningless from the point of view of a “realist,” but only complete surrender of oneself into the hands of this force brings happiness to a person. And at the same time, this novel is surprisingly full of realistic details. They are in descriptions of ships, and in scenes of street carnival processions, and in sketches of nature. This combination of the romantic spirituality of the events described with the realistic details surrounding them creates a completely unique poetic style of the novel and makes it one of Greene’s most popular works. One very interesting idea appears in “Running on the Waves,” which would seem completely uncharacteristic of Greene. Usually his romantic hero is a proud loner. He alone confronts the prose of life and, with beautiful courage, alone withstands the blows of reality. Here the romantic heroes are not loners. They are united not only by personal connections and sympathies, but also by a common cause - the protection of the Running Woman statue. The townspeople have rallied into a team protecting the sculpture, and even Harvey, a stranger in this city, quickly becomes an insider in it, not only because of his common views with the townspeople, but also because he feels in their collective the only force that can save the “Running” .The spirit of collectivism, which binds the positive heroes and gives them strength in the struggle, is a feature of the romance of this work

Review of the book “Running on the Waves” by Alexander Greene, written as part of the “My Favorite Book” competition. Review author: Anastasia Khalyavina. .

“Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life, the Unfulfilled calls us, and we look around, trying to understand where the call came from. Then, waking up in the midst of our world, painfully coming to our senses and cherishing every day, we peer into life, trying with all our being to discern whether the Unfulfilled is beginning to come true?”

“Running on the Waves” Alexander Green.

I just recently finished reading this amazing book, and I am still impressed. It is very difficult to find words and describe all the emotions that arose during the reading process. But I'll still try to do it.

The book is amazing, beautiful, even just because it is unlike any other work I have ever read. It struck me with its truly “Greenian” atmosphere; it seemed to me that everything, from the cover to the letters of this book, was saturated with the smell of the sea, dreams of love, and finally, the power of the Unfulfilled….

I divided all the heroes of this novel into two groups: romantics, whose fantastic imagination is capable of creating miracles in real life, and realists, unable to imagine anything that could compete with reason. The first category included Thomas Harvey, Daisy, who believed in the story of Frese Grand, and the people guarding the Wave Runner. They all believed in a fairy tale, a dream, and thereby made the world a little more beautiful. In the second group I included people like Tobbogana; the rich who sought to destroy the statue; Beach Seniel, who didn't believe Thomas when he told her about the Runner. These people were obsessed with reason and "common" sense and for this reason lost parts of themselves. For example, Tobbogan, saying that people waste so much money on carnivals, alienated the romantic Daisy. As a result, they were forced to separate. And therefore, the book makes you think, who are you? Romantic? Or a realist?

I don’t want to write a lot, because I think that now we need to read not me, but Alexander Greene, or rather, his wonderful novel - an extravaganza, a novel - a fairy tale, a novel - a dream “Running on the Waves”, and together with the dreamer Thomas Harvey, walk through deck of the "Runner" and "Dive"!

The review was written as part of the “” competition.