Ordinary history

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891)-Russian writer, critic.
Ordinary History (1847) - Goncharova"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 about 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 a nelstic mirror of his stupidity, ugliness, passions ... - In a word, to illuminate all the depths of life, to explain its hidden foundations and to explain its hidden foundations and The whole mechanism. It is thanks to this method of artistic image that heroes and events in the novel acquire truthfulness and typicality.
Alexander Aduev, with tears, breaking away from his hearth, he comes to Petersburg to his uncle to realize his dreams of a “elevated” existence, glory, love ... However, an “ordinary story” happened