✅ The theme of art in the story Gambrinus. Essay “Analysis of the story “Gambrinus” by A.I. Kuprin

Analysis of Kuprin's story Gambrinus

The story “Gambrinus” by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin tells the story of a pub.
It was named after the king who patronized the beer business, Gambrinus. This pub was located in a southern port city. The guests of this establishment were very colorful characters. People of different nationalities, different faiths and different social status visited the pub. The author does not introduce the owner of the pub. But as you read the story, it becomes clear that the main people there were the barmaid Ivanova and the musician Sashka.

Sashka was Jewish by nationality. He loved to make faces and have fun. For the world of high art, he was an ordinary musician, but for the visitors of the pub and for the employees in it, he was a musician with a capital M. Sashka could pick out any melody, sing any song. This was very popular among the visitors of the pub. In principle, it was because of Sashka that we loved this establishment.

In the story “Gambrinus” the writer reveals different images of a person. Sasha is the most unique and at the same time the most colorful character. At first glance, he is an ordinary pub violinist. But, if you read the work to the end, then Sashka becomes truly close to every reader.

The Japanese war begins and Sasha is taken into service. He says goodbye with a heavy soul and thinks that he will die in one of the battles. But fate is so merciful to him that two years later he returns to Gambrinus, where everyone is bored without him, and everything falls into place again. But still some changes are taking place. Sashka’s eyes become much sadder and the expression of sadness in them is so heavy that the reader cannot remain indifferent to him.

Further in the story, the writer talks about how people are given complete freedom: freedom of speech and thought. But life doesn't get better from this. On the contrary, for some reason everything is getting worse. The Jews are being persecuted. At this moment, the reader should be afraid that Sashka will come under attack. But he walks the streets freely and calmly. However, Belka, Sashka’s dog, is killed.

In my opinion, Sashka, out of resentment and injustice, fights in a pub, for which he will later go to prison. He comes out of there with a crippled hand. But still, despite all the persecution and injustice towards him, he continues to play the harmonica.

In my opinion, the author wanted to show the strength of the human spirit. Especially if a person is very passionate about something, as is the case with Sasha. The violinist really liked music. She walked through life with him and helped him not to break down and stay strong. Therefore, the author ends his work with these words from Sashka: “A person can be crippled, but art will endure everything and conquer everything.”

Kuprin "Gambrinus": who are the main characters, what is the main idea?

There are two more characters who played an important role in Sashka’s fate:

1). The barmaid Madame Ivanova, to whom Sashka entrusted his dog Belochka when he went to war with Japan. She keeps the memory of Sashka the longest, both when he fought and when he disappeared after the pogroms for three months.

The main idea is expressed in Sashka’s words:

The main characters of a fairy-tale work called “The Flying Carpet,” written by children's writer Vladislav Krapivin, are two boys named Oleg and Vitaly.

After a chance meeting, Vitaly learns that Oleg ran away from his home and then he offered to live with him.

It was summer and the children lived in the attic. One day Aunt Vitalika gave the boys a carpet to shake out. The two friends shook out the carpet and lay down on it to rest. The guys began to dream that it would be nice to fly on this carpet. Suddenly the carpet flew up and the friends’ dream came true. They began to fly everywhere and play right on the carpet.

The main idea of this wonderful story is that you just have to really want it and then everything will come true.

Kuprin "Dog Happiness" For the reader's diary, we will write a summary of the content in 5-6 sentences.

1). A dog named Jack went to the market with the cook, but near the sausage shop he lost the cook.

2). Jack knew the way home very well, so he slowly ran home alone.

3). On the way, he met another dog and then they were both caught and put in a cage with other dogs.

4). There Jack learns that he is being taken to a slaughterhouse, and a conversation arises between the dogs on the topic of a dog's life and happiness.

5). The white poodle said that a dog's happiness lies in the hands of man, but the purple dog proved his views wrong by jumping over the fence to freedom.

I think we can more accurately understand the problems raised by Kuprin in the story “Elephant” if we recall many cases from life when people who were unwell recovered, and the condition of seriously ill people improved, if these people not only took medications, but also had full communication with healthy people, experienced positive emotions and felt like a full member of human society.

The famous story “The Garnet Bracelet” by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin was written in 1910 and is based on real events.

In the story, Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina received a gift from an anonymous admirer on her name day. It was a gold bracelet decorated with garnets. The green garnet was framed by five blood red stones.

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Essay Analysis of the story by Gambrinus Kuprina

The narrative of the work is to describe the life of one of the representatives of Jewish nationality named Sashka, who is a self-taught musician who plays the violin in the Gambrinus beer bar, named after the patron of brewing, located in the port harbor.

The hero is presented as a writer in the form of an orphan who has no special musical education, possesses decency, unique hearing, artistry, wit and good memory, distinguished by his talent as a composer, composing his own music based on traditional Jewish motifs.

The musical performance touches the spiritual corners of the visitors of the pub. Sashka has a resounding success among the regulars of the establishment, people's love and respect.

The fate of the Jewish musician is not easy; his life includes direct participation in the Russian-Japanese War, after which the hero returns with a sad, mournful expression in his eyes, a period of persecution of the Jewish nation with terrible pogroms, arrests and bloody murders, as a result of which Sashki loses his beloved friend - devoted dog Belka, imprisonment for a fight in a tavern, which Sashka gets involved in due to offensive injustice, long-awaited release, accompanied by the impossibility of further playing the violin due to a crippled hand.

The writer, describing life's difficulties and adversities that the hero of the story faces, demonstrates his true human qualities, expressed in Sashka's manifestation of incredible fortitude, courage, and desperate endurance, which allows the hero not to break down and survive, despite the hardships and hardships.

The love of music helps Sashka continue to exist in this world; the man, despite his sore hand, decides not to give up his favorite pastime and masters playing the harmonica.

The work is filled with deep psychologism, emphasizing the heterogeneity of the mental and spiritual state of the Russian people, contrasting beauty and high spirituality with the dark instincts of individual representatives of the brutal crowd.

The writer conveys the main meaning of the story with the idea of the irreversible victory of art, which endures any difficulties, over public self-awareness, demonstrating the age-old melancholy of the Jewish people, denying anti-Semitism in the form of national hatred.

“Gambrinus”: about the role of PR, Kuprin and Sashka the musician

There is hardly a person who has not visited the Odessa beer restaurant "Gambrinus", which is located in a deep basement on the corner of Deribasovskaya and Vice-Admiral Zhukov Lane (historical name - Kolodezny Lane). The building was once occupied by the France Hotel, and the basement was home to the Beer Well bar in the mid-1920s. This is such an amazing continuity...

There were three of them

Today's, "Gambrinus", which opened in 1967, is the third among Odessa beer restaurants with the same name, and each of these three deserves a story about itself. However, the first “Gambrinus”, which opened in 1868 on Grecheskaya Square (then called Alexander Square), did not last long and did not show itself to be particularly interesting. But “Gambrinus”, which appeared in 1897, is, of course, the most “important” among its “cuts”.

On Deribasovskaya, 32 - corner of Preobrazhenskaya

This most famous “Gambrinus” is located in the remote basement of house No. 32 on Deribasovskaya Street, corner of Preobrazhenskaya, with the entrance from the latter. In those days, the house belonged to the artist Khloponin. This zucchini, which was “kept” by the Russified German couple Goppenfeld, immediately gained enormous popularity. It was always, as they say, “to capacity” filled with visitors. The crowd gathered here was very diverse: young revelers from Deribasovskaya, binders from Moldavanka, longshoremen, students from the nearby Novorossiysk University, sailors from foreign ships calling at Odessa and, of course, over-the-top painted girls of not too difficult behavior of different ages...

Advertising is the engine

Of course, the rapidly growing popularity of “Gambrinus” was also facilitated by an essay by the well-known and respected journalist Lazar Karmen in the newspaper “Odessa News” (February 1903) entitled “At the bottom of Odessa.” One of the chapters of the essay - “The Magic Violin” - was dedicated to “Gambrinus” and the man who played a decisive role in the frenzied excitement around this drinking establishment. “Gambrinus” and the same main character in it gained international fame, I’m not afraid of this word, in 1907 - it was then that the magazine “Modern World” published a story by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin under the short title “Gambrinus.” After this publication in Gambrinus there was no end not only from lovers of good beer, but also from exotic seekers. But first things first... ...Back in the 13th century, the honorary chairman of the Brussels brewers' guild, Duke John I, was proclaimed the patron of brewing. Over time, this same Ian Primus turned into Gambrinus. His brightly colored portrait decorated the interior of “our” beer garden. Now let’s listen to A.I. Kuprin: “Underground moisture always oozed from the stone walls in white streams and sparkled in the fire of the gas jets, which burned day and night, because there were no windows at all in the beer hall. Instead of tables, heavy oak barrels were placed on the floor, and small barrels were placed instead of chairs. To the right of the entrance there was a small stage, and on it stood a piano. Here, every evening for many years in a row, the musician Sashka played the violin to entertain the guests - a meek Jew, a cheerful, drunk, bald man with the appearance of a shabby monkey, of unknown age...” So we have reached the quintessence of our story. It was precisely in order to listen to this tavern violinist that all sorts of people poured into the remote basement at the corner of Deribasovskaya and Preobrazhenskaya in the evenings.

Who is he, Sashka the musician?

Sashka the musician is Alexander (Shendel) Yakovlevich Pevzner, who learned the intricacies of violin playing from the klezmers of the Mogilev province, where he was from, came to Odessa in search of work and settled on Moldavanka in one of the old houses on Sadikovskaya Street. This undoubtedly talented musician played everything, Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, Moldavian, Georgian, Italian, Greek and God knows what other melodies flowed from his violin every evening. Sashka satisfied all tastes. He was the clear leader in the trio, which for 12 long years consisted, in addition to Pevzner, of the Vereskovsky brothers - Ignat and Konstantin (accordion and piano). An interesting detail: a few months after the publication of the story about this tavern and its main character, Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin visited Gambrinus, kissed Sashka and gave him a silver cigarette case and a magazine with the story, providing the latter with a touching inscription... Alexander Pevzner married the beautiful widow Golda Starinskaya , adopting her son Solomon, and soon she gave birth to his son Aron (Arkady). Looking ahead, we note that Arkady turned out to be a very capable step dancer and enjoyed great success among the Odessa public. Solomon and Arkady fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and were awarded military decorations. Solomon died in 1943, Arkady returned from the war with a serious wound (a bullet hit his lung), from which he died in 1946. Let's return to Odessa, devastated by hunger and devastation as a result of the revolution and civil war, in 1920, when Pevzner, who had not played in Gambrinus for six years, together with a group of the same poor fellows went to the Volyn province to exchange Kuyalnik salt for something edible. There he contracted typhus, in a semi-delirious state he somehow made it to Odessa and was admitted to the Jewish Hospital. On June 24, 1920, in the “Died” section of the local newspaper “Izvestia” one could read: “...Alexander Yakovlevich Pevzner (Sashka the violinist from “Gambrinus”), as reported by his wife, children and relatives. The removal of the body from the Jewish hospital today at one o’clock in the afternoon, Soviet time.” The funeral procession, despite the harsh time, stretched for several blocks: the whole of Odessa went to see off Sashka the violinist on his last journey...

The third Gambrinus was moved one hundred meters

Quite a lot of time passed before the life of the third, today’s, “Gambrinus” began, with which we began our story. The place chosen for it was quite good - opposite the City Garden, i.e. With a certain stretch, one can say that the famous zucchini simply moved along Deribasovskaya by a couple of hundred meters. In terms of decoration, this “Gambrinus” differs little from its “ancestor”: instead of tables and chairs there are the same oak barrels, large and small, the absence of daylight, because this basement also has no windows, and the same widely smiling, painted patron of brewing Ian Primus... But the audience that gathers here is completely different - fashionably dressed, with good, as it happens, manners... For a long time - almost 30 years - a very good successor of the work of the legendary Sashka, Osip Borisovich Brover, played the violin in this tavern. He, too, brilliantly performed any melodies of the still international Odessa, and, in addition, he told purely Odessa jokes to out-of-town guests visiting “Gambrinus”... Now he is no longer working - he has retired to a very well-deserved rest, and the musicians who replaced him are trying their best make every effort to maintain the glorious traditions of the legendary beer restaurant, which has remained one of the brands of the City... Tourists flooding Odessa can still see the legendary Sasha the musician today, only not alive, but cast in bronze, miniature, installed in the Sculpture Garden of the Literary Museum. Maybe this sculpture bears little resemblance to the very active, always smiling Sashka, but is that really the point? The main thing is that the memory remains.

Anatoly Gorbatyuk