The Confession of a Child of the Century
12 hrs. 18 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alfred de Musset
Author
Alfred de Musset
Narrator
Margarita Ivanova
Narrator
Margarita Ivanova
Description
Contemporaries of a melancholic Russian officer exiled to the Caucasus reasonably considered him a “copy” of Octave de T.—the hero of Alfred de Musset’s novel “Confession of a Son of the Age” (1810–1857). The time has come to repay a literary debt—so we present Octave to today’s Russian reader as a French Pechorin. Musset’s novel, devoted to the tragic love of young Octave for Brigitte, like Lermontov’s brilliant novel, goes far beyond the personal experiences of its characters. It is the confession of a generation disillusioned—so familiar to us, “superfluous people.”
Yes, they lived not only in Russia. And not only in France. It’s worth thinking: where do they come from from time to time? “Where politics and social arrangements of power deprive young people of prospects, and their energy is directed toward servicing their own survival; where enthusiasm for creating culture is destroyed by money and the very possibility of selling yourself; where religion turns into formal ritualism, and morality becomes little more than a pretext for mocking—there, a trifling excuse, a brief flash, some unfortunate love is enough for the insignificance of existence to take on universal scale…” (Mikhail Yasnov).
Yes, they lived not only in Russia. And not only in France. It’s worth thinking: where do they come from from time to time? “Where politics and social arrangements of power deprive young people of prospects, and their energy is directed toward servicing their own survival; where enthusiasm for creating culture is destroyed by money and the very possibility of selling yourself; where religion turns into formal ritualism, and morality becomes little more than a pretext for mocking—there, a trifling excuse, a brief flash, some unfortunate love is enough for the insignificance of existence to take on universal scale…” (Mikhail Yasnov).
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