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Дата написания1970-01-01
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Описание
Роман повествует о юном Артуре Гордоне Пиме, который, вдохновленный морскими приключениями, отправляется в опасные путешествия, сталкиваясь с корабельными катастрофами, борьбой за выживание, интригами на борту и неизведанными культурами, пока не достигает Южного полюса.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Борьба за выживание и поиск истины в условиях опасных морских путешествий
Ключевые идеи
- Сомнения автора в публикации и вера в правдивость рассказа
- Влияние дружбы с Аугустом на решение отправиться в море
- Опасность и непредсказуемость морских путешествий
- Тема спасения и вмешательства судьбы
- Трудности скрытого пребывания на корабле и психологические испытания
- Загадочное письмо от Августуса предупреждает о опасности.
- Физическое и психическое состояние Артура ухудшается из‑за жажды, болезни и изоляции.
- Неэффективное хранение груза может привести к катастрофе.
- Хитрость и обман могут стать ключом к победе над бортовиками.
- Сильные морские бури и повреждения корабля требуют быстрых и решительных действий.
- Выживание в экстремальных условиях требует взаимопомощи и решимости.
- Надежда и страх могут сосуществовать, влияя на решения выживших.
Вывод
Книга приводит к осознанию того, что человеческая выносливость и адаптивность позволяют преодолевать даже самые суровые испытания
Кому полезна
- Любители приключенческой литературы
- Читатели, интересующиеся морскими экспедициями
- Студенты истории и морской географии
Главные темы
- Морские приключения
- Выживание в экстремальных условиях
- Взаимодействие с неизведанными культурами
Персонажи
- Артур Гордон Пим — Молодой человек, выросший в семье торговца, мечтающий о морских приключениях, переживает опасные события и скрытно присоединяется к экспедиции. Старается выжить и помочь Тигру, участвует в планах захвата корабля, сохраняет рассудок и организует спасение. Свидетель и описатель событий, участвующий в исследованиях, отчитывается о торговле, соглашениях и подготовке к дальнейшим действиям.
- Тигр — Верный компаньон, проявляющий странные привычки во время пребывания в укрытии. Съедает свечи, становится агрессивным из‑за жажды и нехватки пищи, но в итоге Артур побеждает его. Сохраняет здоровье и помогает в борьбе.
- Аугустус — Планирует побег и захват корабля, использует обман с телом Роджерса. Моряк, раненый в результате нападения акулы, умирает в августе. Отправил письмо, предупреждающее о опасности, но не присутствует в момент событий. Тяжело раненый, но живой, его состояние часто вызывает тревогу.
- Дирк Питерс — Алкоголик, но решительный, использует обман с телом Роджерса. Моряк, который описывает события и принимает решения о спасении и питании. Участвовал в охоте на медведя.
- Парк — Убежден, что его спасают, но остается под контролем. Помогает в спасении, но иногда слабый из‑за болезни.
- Ту-Уит — Лидер племени, проявляющий дружелюбие и организованность. Дружелюбный и честный, готовый к сотрудничеству, но с скрытыми мотивами.
- Капитан Гай — Опытный мореплаватель, решительный в поисках Южного полюса. Ответственный за безопасность и развитие торговых отношений, стремится продолжить путешествие и использовать местные ресурсы.
- Мистер Поу — Редактор «Southern Literary Messenger», который убеждает Пима написать свою историю.
- Питер — Творческий и решительный, изобретает способы спуска с скалы и помогает в борьбе с племенем.
- Питер Вреденбург — Потерялся в море, упал в ледяную воду.
Цитаты
- "By-and-by, time enough — home by-and-by."
- "I was burning up with fever, and my thirst was almost intolerable."
- blood‑your life depends upon lying close
- I have before stated more than once that my intellect, for some period prior to this, had been in a condition nearly bordering on idiocy.
- Мы нашли его лежащим на полную длину, видимо, в глубоком сонном состоянии, но всё ещё жив.
- Единственный человек из наших противников, который остался жив, был Ричард Парк.
- «It is all over with us, and may God have mercy upon our souls!»
- «We had little hopes that Augustus would recover, as he evinced no signs of life; but, upon getting to him, we discovered that he had merely swooned from the loss of blood…»
- Мы были на обломках корабля, находясь на большом расстоянии от суши, без достаточного количества пищи, чтобы выжить более двух недель даже с осторожностью.
- Вода в кувшине теперь была абсолютно бесполезна, превратившись в густую гелеобразную массу; в ней были видны страшные черви, смешанные с слизью.
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Страница 1 из 57Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym
Introductory note
UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, Va., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public. I had several reasons, however, for declining to do so, some of which were of a nature altogether private, and concern no person but myself; others not so much so. One consideration which deterred me was that, having kept no journal during a greater portion of the time in which I was absent, I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and connected as to have the _appearance _of that truth it would really possess, barring only the natural and unavoidable exaggeration to which all of us are prone when detailing events which have had powerful influence in exciting the imaginative faculties. Another reason was, that the incidents to be narrated were of a nature so positively marvellous that, unsupported as my assertions must necessarily be (except by the evidence of a single individual, and he a half-breed Indian), I could only hope for belief among my family, and those of my friends who have had reason, through life, to put faith in my veracity-the probability being that the public at large would regard what I should put forth as merely an impudent and ingenious fiction. A distrust in my own abilities as a writer was, nevertheless, one of the principal causes which prevented me from complying with the suggestions of my advisers.
Among those gentlemen in Virginia who expressed the greatest interest in my statement, more particularly in regard to that portion of it which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the "Southern Literary Messenger," a monthly magazine, published by Mr. Thomas W. White, in the city of Richmond. He strongly advised me, among others, to prepare at once a full account of what I had seen and undergone, and trust to the shrewdness and common-sense of the public-insisting, with great plausibility, that however roughly, as regards mere authorship, my book should be got up, its very uncouthness, if there were any, would give it all the better chance of being received as truth.
Notwithstanding this representation, I did not make up my mind to do as he suggested. He afterward proposed (finding that I would not stir in the matter) that I should allow him to draw up, in his own words, a narrative of the earlier portion of my adventures, from facts afforded by myself, publishing it in the "Southern Messenger" _under the garb of fiction. _To this, perceiving no objection, I consented, stipulating only that my real name should be retained. Two numbers of the pretended fiction appeared, consequently, in the "Messenger" for January and February (1837), and, in order that it might certainly be regarded as fiction, the name of Mr. Poe was affixed to the articles in the table of contents of the magazine.
The manner in which this ruse was received has induced me at length to undertake a regular compilation and publication of the adventures in question; for I found that, in spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that portion of my statement which appeared in the "Messenger" (without altering or distorting a single fact), the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable, and several letters were sent to Mr. P.'s address, distinctly expressing a conviction to the contrary. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity, and that I had consequently little to fear on the score of popular incredulity.
This_ expos _being made, it will be seen at once how much of what follows I claim to be my own writing; and it will also be understood that no fact is misrepresented in the first few pages which were written by Mr. Poe. Even to those readers who have not seen the "Messenger," it will be unnecessary to point out where his portion ends and my own commences; the difference in point of style will be readily perceived.
Chapter 1
MY name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fortunate in every thing, and had speculated very successfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and other means he had managed to lay by a tolerable sum of money. He was more attached to myself, I believe, than to any other person in the world, and I expected to inherit the most of his property at his death. He sent me, at six years of age, to the school of old Mr. Ricketts, a gentleman with only one arm and of eccentric manners — he is well known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at his school until I was sixteen, when I left him for Mr. E. Ronald's academy on the hill. Here I became intimate with the son of Mr. Barnard, a sea-captain, who generally sailed in the employ of Lloyd and Vredenburgh — Mr. Barnard is also very well known in New Bedford, and has many relations, I am certain, in Edgarton. His son was named Augustus, and he was nearly two years older than myself. He had been on a whaling voyage with his father in the John Donaldson, and was always talking to me of his adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. I used frequently to go home with him, and remain all day, and sometimes all night. We occupied the same bed, and he would be sure to keep me awake until almost light, telling me stories of the natives of the Island of Tinian, and other places he had visited in his travels. At last I could not help being interested in what he said, and by degrees I felt the greatest desire to go to sea. I owned a sailboat called the Ariel, and worth about seventy-five dollars. She had a half-deck or cuddy, and was rigged sloop-fashion — I forget her tonnage, but she would hold ten persons without much crowding. In this boat we were in the habit of going on some of the maddest freaks in the world; and, when I now think of them, it appears to me a thousand wonders that I am alive to-day.
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Участвовал в охоте на медведя.","Парк — Убежден, что его спасают, но остается под контролем. Помогает в спасении, но иногда слабый из‑за болезни.","Ту-Уит — Лидер племени, проявляющий дружелюбие и организованность. Дружелюбный и честный, готовый к сотрудничеству, но с скрытыми мотивами.","Капитан Гай — Опытный мореплаватель, решительный в поисках Южного полюса. Ответственный за безопасность и развитие торговых отношений, стремится продолжить путешествие и использовать местные ресурсы.","Мистер Поу — Редактор «Southern Literary Messenger», который убеждает Пима написать свою историю.","Питер — Творческий и решительный, изобретает способы спуска с скалы и помогает в борьбе с племенем.","Питер Вреденбург — Потерялся в море, упал в ледяную воду."]},{"key":"quotes","title":"Цитаты","body":["\"By-and-by, time enough — home by-and-by.\"","\"I was burning up with fever, and my thirst was almost intolerable.\"","blood‑your life depends upon lying close","I have before stated more than once that my intellect, for some period prior to this, had been in a condition nearly bordering on idiocy.","Мы нашли его лежащим на полную длину, видимо, в глубоком сонном состоянии, но всё ещё жив.","Единственный человек из наших противников, который остался жив, был Ричард Парк.","«It is all over with us, and may God have mercy upon our souls!»","«We had little hopes that Augustus would recover, as he evinced no signs of life; but, upon getting to him, we discovered that he had merely swooned from the loss of blood…»","Мы были на обломках корабля, находясь на большом расстоянии от суши, без достаточного количества пищи, чтобы выжить более двух недель даже с осторожностью.","Вода в кувшине теперь была абсолютно бесполезна, превратившись в густую гелеобразную массу; в ней были видны страшные черви, смешанные с слизью."]}],"authorSummary":{"key":"authorSummary","title":"Сводка по автору из Wikidata","body":"1809–1849. 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Gordon Pym"},{"id":"id134:0","kind":"heading","text":"Introductory note"},{"id":"id134:1","kind":"paragraph","text":"UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, Va., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public. I had several reasons, however, for declining to do so, some of which were of a nature altogether private, and concern no person but myself; others not so much so. One consideration which deterred me was that, having kept no journal during a greater portion of the time in which I was absent, I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and connected as to have the _appearance _of that truth it would really possess, barring only the natural and unavoidable exaggeration to which all of us are prone when detailing events which have had powerful influence in exciting the imaginative faculties. Another reason was, that the incidents to be narrated were of a nature so positively marvellous that, unsupported as my assertions must necessarily be (except by the evidence of a single individual, and he a half-breed Indian), I could only hope for belief among my family, and those of my friends who have had reason, through life, to put faith in my veracity-the probability being that the public at large would regard what I should put forth as merely an impudent and ingenious fiction. A distrust in my own abilities as a writer was, nevertheless, one of the principal causes which prevented me from complying with the suggestions of my advisers."},{"id":"id134:2","kind":"paragraph","text":"Among those gentlemen in Virginia who expressed the greatest interest in my statement, more particularly in regard to that portion of it which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the \"Southern Literary Messenger,\" a monthly magazine, published by Mr. Thomas W. White, in the city of Richmond. He strongly advised me, among others, to prepare at once a full account of what I had seen and undergone, and trust to the shrewdness and common-sense of the public-insisting, with great plausibility, that however roughly, as regards mere authorship, my book should be got up, its very uncouthness, if there were any, would give it all the better chance of being received as truth."},{"id":"id134:3","kind":"paragraph","text":"Notwithstanding this representation, I did not make up my mind to do as he suggested. He afterward proposed (finding that I would not stir in the matter) that I should allow him to draw up, in his own words, a narrative of the earlier portion of my adventures, from facts afforded by myself, publishing it in the \"Southern Messenger\" _under the garb of fiction. _To this, perceiving no objection, I consented, stipulating only that my real name should be retained. Two numbers of the pretended fiction appeared, consequently, in the \"Messenger\" for January and February (1837), and, in order that it might certainly be regarded as fiction, the name of Mr. Poe was affixed to the articles in the table of contents of the magazine."},{"id":"id134:4","kind":"paragraph","text":"The manner in which this ruse was received has induced me at length to undertake a regular compilation and publication of the adventures in question; for I found that, in spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that portion of my statement which appeared in the \"Messenger\" (without altering or distorting a single fact), the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable, and several letters were sent to Mr. P.'s address, distinctly expressing a conviction to the contrary. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity, and that I had consequently little to fear on the score of popular incredulity."},{"id":"id134:5","kind":"paragraph","text":"This_ expos _being made, it will be seen at once how much of what follows I claim to be my own writing; and it will also be understood that no fact is misrepresented in the first few pages which were written by Mr. Poe. Even to those readers who have not seen the \"Messenger,\" it will be unnecessary to point out where his portion ends and my own commences; the difference in point of style will be readily perceived."},{"id":"id134:6","kind":"paragraph","text":"A. G. PYM."},{"id":"id133:0","kind":"heading","text":"Chapter 1"},{"id":"id133:1","kind":"paragraph","text":"MY name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fortunate in every thing, and had speculated very successfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was formerly called. By these and other means he had managed to lay by a tolerable sum of money. He was more attached to myself, I believe, than to any other person in the world, and I expected to inherit the most of his property at his death. He sent me, at six years of age, to the school of old Mr. Ricketts, a gentleman with only one arm and of eccentric manners — he is well known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at his school until I was sixteen, when I left him for Mr. E. Ronald's academy on the hill. Here I became intimate with the son of Mr. Barnard, a sea-captain, who generally sailed in the employ of Lloyd and Vredenburgh — Mr. Barnard is also very well known in New Bedford, and has many relations, I am certain, in Edgarton. His son was named Augustus, and he was nearly two years older than myself. He had been on a whaling voyage with his father in the John Donaldson, and was always talking to me of his adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. I used frequently to go home with him, and remain all day, and sometimes all night. We occupied the same bed, and he would be sure to keep me awake until almost light, telling me stories of the natives of the Island of Tinian, and other places he had visited in his travels. At last I could not help being interested in what he said, and by degrees I felt the greatest desire to go to sea. I owned a sailboat called the Ariel, and worth about seventy-five dollars. She had a half-deck or cuddy, and was rigged sloop-fashion — I forget her tonnage, but she would hold ten persons without much crowding. In this boat we were in the habit of going on some of the maddest freaks in the world; and, when I now think of them, it appears to me a thousand wonders that I am alive to-day."}],"toc":[{"id":"id135:0:1","label":"Narrative Of A. 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