The Summer of the Lord
19 hrs. 24 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ivan Shmelyov
Author
Ivan Shmelyov
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Description
The book was translated into many languages and brought Ivan Shmelyov widespread recognition.
“Summer of the Lord” is a story about how a Russian, Christian-illuminated simple man shaped his weekdays, surrendering to the planetary sun and prayerfully comprehending his life through the sun of Orthodoxy. It is about how the year of his life became an Orthodox year and, at the same time, a working—an хозяйственный—year that unfolded in the presence of God. This is a story about what kinds of everyday life—lit up by feasts— the Russian people lived through for a thousand years and built their Russia;—a story written in the form of a lyrical poem, epic—calm and religiously contemplative, with the tone of a singing description and a loving, ingenuous directness…
When you read this book—both the first, second, and third time (and it is inevitably necessary to have it and return to it constantly, to be comforted, cleansed, healed by it), you do not remember that “this is a book,” but you see Russia itself: the people’s Russia, Orthodox Russia, Moscow Russia, the Zamoskvorechye Russia—in all its temperament’s breadth, in all its fervent calm, in this wonderful combination of naive seriousness, strict kindheartedness, and sly humor… No, it is not enough to say “see”—you live in it, with it, by it; you feel its soul, you hear the sighs of that soul, you take part in the celebration of its feasts, you pray with it, you are frightened, you rejoice, and you cry…
Ilyin Ivan Alexandrovich “On Darkness and Enlightenment. A Book of Literary Criticism: Bunin—Remizov—Shmelyov”
“Summer of the Lord” is a story about how a Russian, Christian-illuminated simple man shaped his weekdays, surrendering to the planetary sun and prayerfully comprehending his life through the sun of Orthodoxy. It is about how the year of his life became an Orthodox year and, at the same time, a working—an хозяйственный—year that unfolded in the presence of God. This is a story about what kinds of everyday life—lit up by feasts— the Russian people lived through for a thousand years and built their Russia;—a story written in the form of a lyrical poem, epic—calm and religiously contemplative, with the tone of a singing description and a loving, ingenuous directness…
When you read this book—both the first, second, and third time (and it is inevitably necessary to have it and return to it constantly, to be comforted, cleansed, healed by it), you do not remember that “this is a book,” but you see Russia itself: the people’s Russia, Orthodox Russia, Moscow Russia, the Zamoskvorechye Russia—in all its temperament’s breadth, in all its fervent calm, in this wonderful combination of naive seriousness, strict kindheartedness, and sly humor… No, it is not enough to say “see”—you live in it, with it, by it; you feel its soul, you hear the sighs of that soul, you take part in the celebration of its feasts, you pray with it, you are frightened, you rejoice, and you cry…
Ilyin Ivan Alexandrovich “On Darkness and Enlightenment. A Book of Literary Criticism: Bunin—Remizov—Shmelyov”
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