The way of all flesh

In the English literature of the second half of the XIX century. Samuel Batler (1835-1902) belongs to a prominent place. In the genre of fantastic grotesque, he revived the Swift tradition, and in the genre of the Roman of Education anticipated the trend, fully developed in the European psychological prose XX century. When creating a "path of any flesh" with an unthinkable frankness, the writer used personal life experience. Autobiographicity gives his narration a special sharpness. The novel led the formation of character and the spiritual formation of the sown of the priest. Before the reader, paintings by sad, crippled by the despotic arbitrariness of childhood educators of the chief hero, complete deprivation and disappointments of youth and, finally, maturity - pores, when he finds himself in creative labor - writing activities.
The vast erudition of the author and the master ownership of the word allows him to skillfully climb into the tissue of the narrative and in the speech of the heroes biblical, Shakespeare and other classical quotes and allusions, very often presenting them so that everyone known, the commander of the phrases begin to blame new paints. Own paradoxes and allegories of the writer are not less elegated. The skillful combination of all these techniques made it possible to create one of the best Victorian novels, where the original philosophical reflections coexist with bright genre scenes, and the separating satire and caustic irony - with a soft, pure English humor