Features of the tale in the work of the left-hander. Linguistic features of the tale “Lefty

Story by N.S. Leskov’s “Lefty” is a special work. The author’s idea arose from a folk joke about how “the British made a flea out of steel, but our Tula people shod it and sent it back.” Thus, the story initially assumed closeness to folklore not only in content, but also in the manner of narration. The style of “Lefty” is very unique. Leskov managed to bring the genre of the story as close as possible to oral folk art, namely skaz, while at the same time preserving certain features of literary

The originality of the language in the story “Lefty” is manifested primarily in the very manner of narration. The reader immediately gets the feeling that the narrator was directly involved in the events described. This is important for understanding the main ideas of the work, because the emotionality of the main character makes you worry with him, the reader perceives a somewhat subjective view of the actions of other characters in the story, but it is this subjectivity that makes them as real as possible, the reader himself is transported to those distant times.

In addition, the fantastic style of narration

It serves as a clear sign that the narrator is a simple person, a hero from the people. He expresses not only his thoughts, feelings and experiences, behind this generalized image stands the entire working Russian people, living from hand to mouth, but caring about the prestige of their native country. With the help of descriptions of views on the life of gunsmiths and craftsmen through the eyes not of an outside observer, but of a sympathetic fellow, Leskov raises an eternal problem: why the fate of the common people, who feed and clothe the entire upper class, is indifferent to those in power, why are craftsmen remembered only when they need to support “prestige of the nation”? Bitterness and anger can be heard in the description of Lefty's death, and the author especially clearly shows the contrast between the fate of the Russian master and the English half-skipper, who found themselves in a similar situation.

However, in addition to the tale-like manner of narration, one can note the rather widespread use of vernacular in the story. For example, in the descriptions of the actions of Emperor Alexander I and the Cossack Platov, such colloquial verbs appear as “to ride” and “to jerk”. This not only once again demonstrates the narrator’s closeness to the people, but also expresses his attitude towards the authorities. People understand perfectly well that their pressing problems do not concern the emperor at all, but they do not get angry, but come up with naive excuses: Tsar Alexander, in their understanding, is the same simple person, he may want to change the life of the province for the better, but he is forced to deal with more important matters. The absurd order to conduct “internecine negotiations” is put by the narrator into the mouth of Emperor Nicholas with secret pride, but the reader guesses Leskov’s irony: the naive artisan is trying his best to show the significance and importance of the imperial personality and does not suspect how much he is mistaken. Thus, a comic effect arises from the incongruity of overly pompous words.

Also, the stylization of foreign words causes a smile; the narrator, with the same proud expression, talks about Platov’s “aspiration,” about how the flea “danse dances,” but he doesn’t even realize how stupid it sounds. Here Leskov again demonstrates the naivety of ordinary people, but besides this, this episode conveys the spirit of the times, when sincere patriotism still hid a secret desire to be like enlightened Europeans. A particular manifestation of this is the adaptation of names of works of art that are too inconvenient for a Russian person into the native language; for example, the reader learns about the existence of Abolon Polvedersky and is again surprised in equal measure by both the resourcefulness and, again, the naivety of the Russian peasant.

Even Russian words must be used in a special way by fellow Lefty; he again, with an important and sedate look, reports that Platov “could not quite” speak French, and authoritatively notes that “he doesn’t need it: he’s a married man.” This is an obvious verbal alogism, behind which lies the author’s irony, caused by the author’s pity for the man, and, moreover, the irony is sad.

From the point of view of the uniqueness of the language, special attention is drawn to neologisms caused by ignorance of the thing that the man is talking about. These are words such as “busters” (chandelier plus bust) and “melkoskop” (so named, apparently, according to the function it performs). The author notes that in the minds of the people, objects of lordly luxury have merged into an incomprehensible tangle, people do not distinguish busts from chandeliers, they are so in awe of their senseless pompousness of palaces. And the word “melkoskop” became an illustration of another idea of Leskov: Russian masters are wary of the achievements of foreign science, their talent is so great that no technical inventions will defeat the master’s genius. However, at the same time, in the finale, the narrator sadly notes that machines have nevertheless supplanted human talent and skill.

The originality of the language of the story “Lefty” lies in the manner of narration, in the use of vernacular and neologisms. With the help of these literary techniques, the author managed to reveal the character of Russian craftsmen; the reader is shown bright, original images of Lefty and the narrator.

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In addition, the fairy-tale style of narration serves as a clear sign that the narrator is a simple person, a hero from the people. He expresses not only his thoughts, feelings and experiences, behind this generalized image stands the entire working Russian people, living from hand to mouth, but caring about the prestige of their native country. With the help of descriptions of views on the life of gunsmiths and craftsmen through the eyes not of an outside observer, but of a sympathetic fellow, Leskov raises an eternal problem: why the fate of the common people, who feed and clothe the entire upper class, is indifferent to those in power, why are craftsmen remembered only when they need to support “prestige of the nation”? Bitterness and anger can be heard in the description of Lefty's death, and the author especially clearly shows the contrast between the fate of the Russian master and the English half-skipper, who found themselves in a similar situation.

Republican open day for school principals.

Guryanova E.P. teacher of Russian language and literature.

Open lesson on literature in 6th grade a.

Subject: N. S. Leskov (1831-1895). Tale "Lefty". Features of the tale

Lesson Objectives : briefly introduce students to the biography and work of Leskov; give an idea of the genre of the tale; to interest students in a non-ordinary narrative.

Lesson equipment: portrait of N.S. Leskov, multimedia lesson on the work of N.S. Leskova

Methodical techniques: teacher’s story, expressive reading, explanation of theoretical issues, conversation on issues.

During the classes

I. Checking homework Working with an interactive whiteboard.Simulator based on the poem by N.A. Nekrasov "Railway"

II. Teacher's word.Open the first page of the media lesson. Portrait and biography of Leskov. (Leskov “Lefty”)

We are turning to the work of one of the most interesting Russian writers, Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, for the first time. But you've probably heard about his famous hero, Lefty. This hero received, with the light hand of the writer, an independent life.

The birthplace of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov is the city of Orel.

The writer was born on February 16, 1831, his father graduated from theological seminary, but did not want to become a priest, but became an official and rose to ranks that gave hereditary nobility.

When N. S. Leskov was seventeen years old, his father died of cholera, and the future writer had to work and serve. He moves to Kyiv to live with his uncle, lives and works there. In Kyiv, he is caught by significant changes for the era: the death of Nicholas I, the lifting of many prohibitions, and the harbinger of future reforms, from which they expected more than they brought. The new era caused a rise in commercial and industrial activity, which required educated, enterprising people, and Leskov began working in a commercial enterprise, for which he moved to the Penza province in 1857. For three years he traveled all over Russia. Later, in response to a newspaper reporter’s question: “Where do you get the material for your works?” - Leskov pointed to his forehead: “From this chest.” Here are the impressions of my commercial service, when I had to travel around Russia on business, this was the best time of my life, when I saw a lot and lived easily.”

III. Tale as a form of storytelling. Heuristic conversation.

The subtitle indicates the genre of the work - tale. Remember what work written in the tale genre we studied last year. Who is its author?

How do we define the genre of a tale?(Tale is a genre of epic based on folk tales and legends. It is characterized by a combination of accurate sketches of folk life and customs with the fabulously fantastic world of folklore. The narration is told on behalf of the narrator, a person with a special character and style of speech)open the “Genre of the work” page

What is the difference between a tale and a fairy tale?(The tale is based on a legend, which in turn arose on the basis of a real event)

So first the real event happens. Then, based on this event, a legend arises among the people, which is told by folk storytellers. The writer gets acquainted with this legend and tells it to the readers, recreating the appearance of the narrator (storyteller). Event - legend - tale.

How do you explain what a narrator's persona is?(The narrator in the tale is not a real person, but an artistic image, but it seems to readers that he has all the features of a real person)

What features does the image of the narrator in Bazhov’s tales have?(The narrator is an old, experienced man who knows the mining business well, lives and works all his life in the same place where his heroes live. He loves and respects his comrades, is attentive to nature, to the feelings and lives of other people. It seems that the storyteller is old, with gray hair, kind eyes and deep wrinkles on his face. He is dressed in the clothes that craftsmen wore. When he tells his stories, he smiles a little sadly.)

What story by Bazhov did we read in class? Was it interesting for you to read it?

Which tales of Bazhov have you read on your own?

Let's return to the topic of the lesson. The story of the slanting left-hander and the lame flea is a fairy tale. What can we assume, knowing the genre of the work?(We can assume that the work was written by Leskov based on a legend he heard from some person. This legend, in turn, arose on the basis of a real event)Open the page “Lefty. History of creation"

And in the first edition of “Lefty,” the author pointed to an allegedly existing person, from whom he heard a legend about a master who shoed a flea. But what makes Leskov’s tale so surprising is that neither the storyteller nor the folk legend existed. There was only one joke: “The British made a flea out of steel, but our Tula people shod it and sent it back to them.”

IV. Working with the textbook. Reading an excerpt from an article by Yu. Nagibin.

The image of the narrator and the images of the heroes created by Leskov turned out to be so convincing that after the publication of this tale, a legend arose in Tula about a left-handed man who shod a flea.

Reading an excerpt from L.A. Anninsky’s book “Leskovskoye Necklace”. Leskov created the image of the narrator on whose behalf the story is told. When talking about the heroes of the work, we will keep in mind that the narrator is the same hero. He has a special speech and his own special attitude to the events he talks about.

V. Expressive reading and conversation on issues.Open the text “Left-handed” on the interactive board

1. The teacher reads the first chapter of the story.

What elements of folklore did you notice? (INThere is a beginning in a story, there are repetitions. The ending of the tale contains an edification: “And if they had brought the leftist’s words to the sovereign in due time, in the Crimea the war with the enemy would have taken a completely different turn.”)
Who do you think the storyteller, narrator could be?(The narrator is most likely a simple person, a craftsman, a craftsman. In his speech there are many irregularities, colloquialisms, inversions characteristic of folklore works; historical characters - Alexander I and Platov - are shown from the point of view of a commoner.)
When and where does the story take place? (The action takes place in Russia and England shortly after the Napoleonic War, and mentions the Congress of Vienna of 1814-1815. The trip of Alexander I with Platov to London is a historical fact. Mention is made of the Decembrist uprising of 1825, called “confusion.”)

2. Listening to the reading of the second chapter and commentary on it on the interactive whiteboard. “Point of view of the Tula master”

VI. Characteristics of heroesOpen the page “Statesmen and Lefties”

(Alexander Pavlovich: “He traveled to all countries and everywhere, through his kindness, he always had the most internecine conversations with all sorts of people”; “We Russians are no good with our meaning”; etc.

Platov: “And as soon as Platov notices that the sovereign is very interested in something strange, then all the guides are silent, and Platov will now say: so and so, and we have our own at home no worse, - and will take him away with something”; “and Platov maintains his expectation that everything means nothing to him”; and etc.)

Let's pay attention to the new, unusual words of the tale. How are they formed? Give examples. Open the “Speech of Heroes” page.(New words are formed, the narrator or hero encounters words unfamiliar to an illiterate person and changes them so that it is “more understandable.” For example: “melkoskop” - microscope; “kislyarka” - kizlyarka; “Abolon Polvedere” - Apollo Belvedere; “dolbitsa” " - table; "two-seater" - double; "ceramides"- pyramids; “prelamut” - mother of pearl; "Candelabria" - Calabria, etc.)

What is the role of such words? (Such “folk” words create a humorous effect.)

V. Testing at the end of the lesson using an interactive whiteboard.

Homework

Re-read chapters 4-10 of the tale;

Write down quotes characterizing Nikolai Pavlovich, Platov, left-hander.

Prepare a retelling of the episode of your choice.

The action of the story “Lefty” takes place in the Russian Empire during the reign of Tsars Alexander the First and Nikolai Pavlovich. The work contrasts the attitude of the emperors towards the Motherland and the achievements of the Russian people. In the story, the author noticeably sympathizes with Tsar Nikolai Pavlovich, as well as with the main character, the Tula master Leftsha, whose views are akin to the imperial ones. They are united by the belief that nothing is impossible for a Russian. The characterization of Lefty from Leskov’s story “Lefty” is an opportunity to understand the essence of a real simple Russian person.

Closeness to the people

With the main character of the work N.S. Leskov does not introduce us right away. Over the course of several chapters, it seems that the main character of the story is the Cossack Platov. The true protagonist appears as if by chance. Perhaps, the author did this deliberately in order to emphasize the essence of the character of Lefty from the story “Lefty” - he comes from the people and himself is their personification, with all his simplicity, naivety, indifference to wealth, great faith in Orthodoxy and devotion to the Fatherland. For the same purpose, the author does not give the hero a name. Lefty is one of three Tula craftsmen who were given the honor of making something like this to prove to Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich and the self-confident British what the Russian people are capable of.

The generality of the image of Lefty is emphasized not only by his namelessness, but also by a little information about him. As we read, we don't know anything about his age or family. Before us is only his laconic portrait: “Left-handed with an oblique face, a birthmark on his cheek, and the hair on his temples torn out during training.”

The great talent of a simple master

Despite his outward ugliness, Lefty has a great talent that amazed not only the Tsar himself, but also English craftsmen. Lefty, together with two other Tula craftsmen, managed to shoe a miniature flea without any special knowledge or equipment. In this case, Lefty got the most difficult job - forging miniature nails for horseshoes.

The quality without which the characterization of Lefty from the story “Lefty” will be incomplete is the modesty of a brilliant master. The folk craftsman did not boast of his achievement and did not consider himself a hero, but simply conscientiously carried out the instructions of the sovereign, and also tried with all his heart to show what a Russian person was capable of. When Emperor Nicholas realized what the craftsmen's work was, which at first he could not see even through his small scope, he was surprised how they could do it without equipment. To which Lefty modestly replied: “We are poor people and due to our poverty we do not have a small scope, but our eyes are so focused.”

Indifference to wealth and comfort

Lefty also showed modesty and indifference to wealth during his trip to England. He did not agree to study abroad; promises of neither money nor fame convinced him. Lefty asked for one thing - to go home as soon as possible. This simplicity and modesty became the reason for the hero’s inglorious death, which no one knew about. He was embarrassed by a comfortable cabin and high society, so he spent the entire journey across the winter sea on the deck, which is why he fell ill.

Arriving in St. Petersburg, he was unable to introduce himself and say that he was carrying out the tsar’s instructions. Therefore, he was robbed and was not admitted to any hospital except the simplest one for the poor, where he died. The author contrasted the image of Lefty with the Englishman who sailed with him, who was settled in a good hotel and cured. And Lefty died tragically because of his modesty and simplicity.

Lefty Character Traits

Love for the Motherland and a sense of responsibility to one’s state are the main character traits of Lefty. Master Lefty's last thought was the desire to convey to the Tsar at all costs that there is no need to clean guns with bricks. If he had been able to convey this, Russian military affairs would have been even more successful, but his request never reached the sovereign. Even dying, this simple Tula master remained true to his character, the main feature of which was to think first of all about the Fatherland, and not about himself.

In the image of Lefty N.S. Leskov showed the full depth of the Russian person: naive, simple and even funny, but for whom there is nothing dearer than the Orthodox faith and native side. Devotion to the Motherland, responsibility for its future and great natural skill - these are the qualities that underlie the characteristics of the hero of the tale “Lefty”.

Work test

1880s - the heyday of N. S. Leskov’s creativity. He spent his whole life and all his strength trying to create a “positive” type of Russian person. He defended the interests of peasants, defended the interests of workers, denounced careerism and bribery. In search of a positive hero, N. S. Leskov often turns to people from among the people. “Lefty” is one of the peaks of the writer’s artistic creativity. N. S. Leskov does not give a name to his hero, thereby emphasizing the collective meaning and significance of his character. “Where “Lefty” stands, you should read “Russian people,” the writer said. He loves his hero, but does not idealize him, showing that despite his hard work and skill, he was not trained in science and, instead of the four rules of addition from arithmetic, he takes everything from the Psalter to the Half-Dream Book.

The narration is conducted by a narrator, his speech is full of neologisms. "N. S. Leskov... is a wizard of words, but he did not write plastically, but told stories, and in this art he has no equal,” noted M. Gorky. And it’s hard to disagree with this. That is why N. S. Leskov was constantly looking for “living faces” who had rich spiritual content and could interest others. To do this, N. S. Leskov uses the memoir form of a fictional work of art. “Memoir” is only an artistic means, since most of Leskov’s heroes did not have prototypes.

The language of the story is “real, superfluous Russian”; it required a lot of painstaking work from the author. However, in the story it is perceived simply and clearly. It contains obsolete words (“Aglitsky flea”, “yashcheisky”, “vereta”), vernacular (“rumor”, “trifle”, “kislyarka”, “peppered with hammers”), borrowed words, often distorted (“melancholy”, “melkoskop”, “nymphosoria”, “danse”).

At the end of the story, Pushkin’s saying sounds - “the affairs of bygone days” and “legends of antiquity.”

The story has the "fabulous texture of a legend" and the "epic character of the protagonist." The real (proper) name of the left-hander is not given; it, like the names of many geniuses, is forever lost to posterity. N. S. Leskov created a myth personified by fantasy.

In the last chapter, the writer regrets that with the development of technology, machines replaced manual labor. Machines, according to the author, “do not favor aristocratic prowess, which sometimes exceeded the limit and inspired folk imagination to compose such fabulous legends as today.” N. S. Leskov shows that workers appreciate the benefits that mechanics provide them, but they remember the old, bygone times with pride and love.

N. S. Leskov himself, assessing the artistic originality of “Lefty,” complains that creating a language is a very labor-intensive task. In his opinion, only love for his work can motivate a person to take up such mosaic work. N. S. Leskov writes: “It was this very “peculiar” language that they blamed me for and finally forced it to spoil and discolor a little.”

“Lefty” is a work in which the writer achieved great strength and depth of artistic generalization. It so accurately recreates the speech coloring of the depicted environment that when reading the story, the illusion of the authenticity of the events and the reality of the narrator’s image arises.