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The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance
Автор Марк Твен12+
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Дата написания1970-01-01
Язык книгиen
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Описание
Книга описывает жизнь изолированной австрийской деревни 1590 года, конфликт между двумя священниками, вмешательство демонического странника, чьи разрушительные видения и вмешательство в судьбы людей раскрывают безразличие сверхъестественных сил к человеческим страданиям, а также критический взгляд на эксплуатацию труда, слухи о ведьмах и жестокую охоту на ведьму.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Конфликт между строгим и мягким подходом к религии в изолированной общине, а также вмешательство демонического странника, который разрушает и манипулирует реальностью, создавая конфликт, эксплуатацию и массовую жестокость.
Ключевые идеи
- Изолированная средневековая деревня, где знания ограничены религиозными ценностями.
- Конфликт между двумя священниками и влияние астролога на решения бисепса.
- Судьба странника как всевидящего и безразличного наблюдателя
- Разрушение замка как символ человеческой тщетности
- Тайна золотого кошелька и её влияние на персонажей
- Моральное чувство как критерий справедливости и его отсутствие у людей приводит к эксплуатации.
- Сатана выступает как критик человеческой бездушности и одновременно как вмешательник в судьбы людей.
- Слухи о ведьмах и колдовстве создают атмосферу страха и подозрений в деревне.
- Мощь меньшинства над большинством
- Сатана как наблюдатель и манипулятор
- Жестокость толпы и её последствия
Вывод
Книга приводит к выводу, что сверхъестественные силы могут быть безразличны к человеческим страданиям, а человеческие общества часто подвержены конфликтам, эксплуатации и массовой жестокости, требуя критического осмысления и поиска более справедливых и гуманных подходов к жизни.
Кому полезна
- Читатели, интересующиеся исторической прозой
- Люди, изучающие религиозную критику и социальную справедливость
- Те, кто интересуется мистикой и психологией толпы
Главные темы
- Религиозная строгость и конфликт
- Мораль и эксплуатация труда
- Влияние сверхъестественных сил
- Женщины-ведьмы и общественное давление
- Безразличие и массовая жестокость
Персонажи
- Сатана — Сатана выступает критиком человеческой морали, высмеивает гордость людей, вмешивается в судьбы животных и людей. Обладает властью над временем и расстоянием, использует смех как оружие, объясняет влияние меньшинства. Видит всё, не испытывает эмоций, относится к людям как к незначительным существам, способен разрушать и создавать иллюзии.
- Отец Петр — Он проповедует о Божьей милости, но обвиняется астрологом в неприемлемых словах, что приводит к его отстранению. Пытается понять, откуда пришёл кошелёк с золотом, но остаётся в растерянности.
- Отец Адольф — Он не боится дьявола, открыто говорит о нем и даже утверждает, что лично встретился с ним, вызывая у людей страх и уважение.
- Маргет — Её жизнь ухудшается после отстранения отца Петра, и она сталкивается с бедностью и социальной изоляцией.
- Герой — Главный персонаж, который описывает события и взаимодействует с Сатаной и Сеппи. Слушает и наблюдает за действиями Сатаны, но не может полностью понять происходящее.
- Сеппи Вольмейер — Сеппи живет в деревне, рассказывает о пропаже Ганса и жестоком обращении с собакой.
- Ганс Опперт — Ганс известен тем, что избивает свою собаку без причины.
- Мегерт — Мегерт живёт в изоляции, сталкивается с подозрениями в колдовстве.
- Урсула — Урсула живёт с слугой Готтфридом, чья семья связана с обвинениями в колдовстве.
- Готтфрид Нара — Служит в доме Урсулы, семья связана с обвинениями в колдовстве.
- Ведьма — Известна своими «чудодейственными» способами лечения, преследуется и повешена.
- Кузнец — Обвиняет сатану в бросании камня, умирает при показе часов.
Цитаты
- Он был единственным христианином, которого я когда-либо знал, от которого можно было действительно сказать, что он не боится дьявола.
- Отец Петр имел врага и очень могущественного – астролога, который жил в старой башне над долиной.
- Manners! Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.
- Don't cry, Satan said; they were of no value.
- «Моральное чувство — это то, что учит владельцев фабрики различать добро и зло, и вы видите результат.»
- «Собака, раненая Гансом, разговаривает с Сатаной, и он восстанавливает её глаз.»
- It was wonderful, the mastery Satan had over time and distance.
- Satan burst out laughing.
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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)
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Three of us boys were always together, and had been so from the cradle, being fond of one another from the beginning, and this affection deepened as the years went on—Nikolaus Bauman, son of the principal judge of the local court; Seppi Wohlmeyer, son of the keeper of the principal inn, the "Golden Stag," which had a nice garden, with shade trees reaching down to the riverside, and pleasure boats for hire; and I was the third—Theodor Fischer, son of the church organist, who was also leader of the village musicians, teacher of the violin, composer, tax-collector of the commune, sexton, and in other ways a useful citizen, and respected by all. We knew the hills and the woods as well as the birds knew them; for we were always roaming them when we had leisure—at least, when we were not swimming or boating or fishing, or playing on the ice or sliding down hill.
And we had the run of the castle park, and very few had that. It was because we were pets of the oldest servingman in the castle—Felix Brandt; and often we went there, nights, to hear him talk about old times and strange things, and to smoke with him (he taught us that) and to drink coffee; for he had served in the wars, and was at the siege of Vienna; and there, when the Turks were defeated and driven away, among the captured things were bags of coffee, and the Turkish prisoners explained the character of it and how to make a pleasant drink out of it, and now he always kept coffee by him, to drink himself and also to astonish the ignorant with. When it stormed he kept us all night; and while it thundered and lightened outside he told us about ghosts and horrors of every kind, and of battles and murders and mutilations, and such things, and made it pleasant and cozy inside; and he told these things from his own experience largely. He had seen many ghosts in his time, and witches and enchanters, and once he was lost in a fierce storm at midnight in the mountains, and by the glare of the lightning had seen the Wild Huntsman rage on the blast with his specter dogs chasing after him through the driving cloud-rack. Also he had seen an incubus once, and several times he had seen the great bat that sucks the blood from the necks of people while they are asleep, fanning them softly with its wings and so keeping them drowsy till they die.
He encouraged us not to fear supernatural things, such as ghosts, and said they did no harm, but only wandered about because they were lonely and distressed and wanted kindly notice and compassion; and in time we learned not to be afraid, and even went down with him in the night to the haunted chamber in the dungeons of the castle. The ghost appeared only once, and it went by very dim to the sight and floated noiseless through the air, and then disappeared; and we scarcely trembled, he had taught us so well. He said it came up sometimes in the night and woke him by passing its clammy hand over his face, but it did him no hurt; it only wanted sympathy and notice. But the strangest thing was that he had seen angels—actual angels out of heaven—and had talked with them. They had no wings, and wore clothes, and talked and looked and acted just like any natural person, and you would never know them for angels except for the wonderful things they did which a mortal could not do, and the way they suddenly disappeared while you were talking with them, which was also a thing which no mortal could do. And he said they were pleasant and cheerful, not gloomy and melancholy, like ghosts.
It was after that kind of a talk one May night that we got up next morning and had a good breakfast with him and then went down and crossed the bridge and went away up into the hills on the left to a woody hill-top which was a favorite place of ours, and there we stretched out on the grass in the shade to rest and smoke and talk over these strange things, for they were in our minds yet, and impressing us. But we couldn't smoke, because we had been heedless and left our flint and steel behind.
Soon there came a youth strolling toward us through the trees, and he sat down and began to talk in a friendly way, just as if he knew us. But we did not answer him, for he was a stranger and we were not used to strangers and were shy of them. He had new and good clothes on, and was handsome and had a winning face and a pleasant voice, and was easy and graceful and unembarrassed, not slouchy and awkward and diffident, like other boys. We wanted to be friendly with him, but didn't know how to begin. Then I thought of the pipe, and wondered if it would be taken as kindly meant if I offered it to him. But I remembered that we had no fire, so I was sorry and disappointed. But he looked up bright and pleased, and said:
"Fire? Oh, that is easy; I will furnish it."
I was so astonished I couldn't speak; for I had not said anything. He took the pipe and blew his breath on it, and the tobacco glowed red, and spirals of blue smoke rose up. We jumped up and were going to run, for that was natural; and we did run a few steps, although he was yearningly pleading for us to stay, and giving us his word that he would not do us any harm, but only wanted to be friends with us and have company. So we stopped and stood, and wanted to go back, being full of curiosity and wonder, but afraid to venture. He went on coaxing, in his soft, persuasive way; and when we saw that the pipe did not blow up and nothing happened, our confidence returned by little and little, and presently our curiosity got to be stronger than our fear, and we ventured back—but slowly, and ready to fly at any alarm.
He was bent on putting us at ease, and he had the right art; one could not remain doubtful and timorous where a person was so earnest and simple and gentle, and talked so alluringly as he did; no, he won us over, and it was not long before we were content and comfortable and chatty, and glad we had found this new friend. When the feeling of constraint was all gone we asked him how he had learned to do that strange thing, and he said he hadn't learned it at all; it came natural to him—like other things—other curious things.
"Oh, a number; I don't know how many."
"Will you let us see you do them?"
"Do—please!" the others said.
"You won't run away again?"
"No—indeed we won't. Please do. Won't you?"
"Yes, with pleasure; but you mustn't forget your promise, you know."
We said we wouldn't, and he went to a puddle and came back with water in a cup which he had made out of a leaf, and blew upon it and threw it out, and it was a lump of ice the shape of the cup. We were astonished and charmed, but not afraid any more; we were very glad to be there, and asked him to go on and do some more things. And he did. He said he would give us any kind of fruit we liked, whether it was in season or not. We all spoke at once;
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We knew the hills and the woods as well as the birds knew them; for we were always roaming them when we had leisure—at least, when we were not swimming or boating or fishing, or playing on the ice or sliding down hill."},{"id":"id110:2","kind":"paragraph","text":"And we had the run of the castle park, and very few had that. It was because we were pets of the oldest servingman in the castle—Felix Brandt; and often we went there, nights, to hear him talk about old times and strange things, and to smoke with him (he taught us that) and to drink coffee; for he had served in the wars, and was at the siege of Vienna; and there, when the Turks were defeated and driven away, among the captured things were bags of coffee, and the Turkish prisoners explained the character of it and how to make a pleasant drink out of it, and now he always kept coffee by him, to drink himself and also to astonish the ignorant with. When it stormed he kept us all night; and while it thundered and lightened outside he told us about ghosts and horrors of every kind, and of battles and murders and mutilations, and such things, and made it pleasant and cozy inside; and he told these things from his own experience largely. He had seen many ghosts in his time, and witches and enchanters, and once he was lost in a fierce storm at midnight in the mountains, and by the glare of the lightning had seen the Wild Huntsman rage on the blast with his specter dogs chasing after him through the driving cloud-rack. Also he had seen an incubus once, and several times he had seen the great bat that sucks the blood from the necks of people while they are asleep, fanning them softly with its wings and so keeping them drowsy till they die."},{"id":"id110:3","kind":"paragraph","text":"He encouraged us not to fear supernatural things, such as ghosts, and said they did no harm, but only wandered about because they were lonely and distressed and wanted kindly notice and compassion; and in time we learned not to be afraid, and even went down with him in the night to the haunted chamber in the dungeons of the castle. The ghost appeared only once, and it went by very dim to the sight and floated noiseless through the air, and then disappeared; and we scarcely trembled, he had taught us so well. He said it came up sometimes in the night and woke him by passing its clammy hand over his face, but it did him no hurt; it only wanted sympathy and notice. But the strangest thing was that he had seen angels—actual angels out of heaven—and had talked with them. They had no wings, and wore clothes, and talked and looked and acted just like any natural person, and you would never know them for angels except for the wonderful things they did which a mortal could not do, and the way they suddenly disappeared while you were talking with them, which was also a thing which no mortal could do. And he said they were pleasant and cheerful, not gloomy and melancholy, like ghosts."},{"id":"id110:4","kind":"paragraph","text":"It was after that kind of a talk one May night that we got up next morning and had a good breakfast with him and then went down and crossed the bridge and went away up into the hills on the left to a woody hill-top which was a favorite place of ours, and there we stretched out on the grass in the shade to rest and smoke and talk over these strange things, for they were in our minds yet, and impressing us. But we couldn't smoke, because we had been heedless and left our flint and steel behind."},{"id":"id110:5","kind":"paragraph","text":"Soon there came a youth strolling toward us through the trees, and he sat down and began to talk in a friendly way, just as if he knew us. But we did not answer him, for he was a stranger and we were not used to strangers and were shy of them. He had new and good clothes on, and was handsome and had a winning face and a pleasant voice, and was easy and graceful and unembarrassed, not slouchy and awkward and diffident, like other boys. We wanted to be friendly with him, but didn't know how to begin. Then I thought of the pipe, and wondered if it would be taken as kindly meant if I offered it to him. But I remembered that we had no fire, so I was sorry and disappointed. But he looked up bright and pleased, and said:"},{"id":"id110:6","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Fire? Oh, that is easy; I will furnish it.\""},{"id":"id110:7","kind":"paragraph","text":"I was so astonished I couldn't speak; for I had not said anything. He took the pipe and blew his breath on it, and the tobacco glowed red, and spirals of blue smoke rose up. We jumped up and were going to run, for that was natural; and we did run a few steps, although he was yearningly pleading for us to stay, and giving us his word that he would not do us any harm, but only wanted to be friends with us and have company. So we stopped and stood, and wanted to go back, being full of curiosity and wonder, but afraid to venture. He went on coaxing, in his soft, persuasive way; and when we saw that the pipe did not blow up and nothing happened, our confidence returned by little and little, and presently our curiosity got to be stronger than our fear, and we ventured back—but slowly, and ready to fly at any alarm."},{"id":"id110:8","kind":"paragraph","text":"He was bent on putting us at ease, and he had the right art; one could not remain doubtful and timorous where a person was so earnest and simple and gentle, and talked so alluringly as he did; no, he won us over, and it was not long before we were content and comfortable and chatty, and glad we had found this new friend. When the feeling of constraint was all gone we asked him how he had learned to do that strange thing, and he said he hadn't learned it at all; it came natural to him—like other things—other curious things."},{"id":"id110:9","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What ones?\""},{"id":"id110:10","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, a number; I don't know how many.\""},{"id":"id110:11","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Will you let us see you do them?\""},{"id":"id110:12","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Do—please!\" the others said."},{"id":"id110:13","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"You won't run away again?\""},{"id":"id110:14","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"No—indeed we won't. Please do. Won't you?\""},{"id":"id110:15","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes, with pleasure; but you mustn't forget your promise, you know.\""},{"id":"id110:16","kind":"paragraph","text":"We said we wouldn't, and he went to a puddle and came back with water in a cup which he had made out of a leaf, and blew upon it and threw it out, and it was a lump of ice the shape of the cup. We were astonished and charmed, but not afraid any more; we were very glad to be there, and asked him to go on and do some more things. And he did. He said he would give us any kind of fruit we liked, whether it was in season or not. We all spoke at once;"},{"id":"id110:17","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Orange!\""},{"id":"id110:18","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Apple!\""},{"id":"id110:19","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Grapes!\""}],"toc":[{"id":"id112:0:1","label":"THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER by Mark Twain","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ#reader-content"},{"id":"id111:0:1","label":"Chapter 1","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ#reader-content"},{"id":"id110:0:2","label":"Chapter 2","page":2,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=2#reader-content"},{"id":"id19:0:4","label":"Chapter 3","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"id18:0:6","label":"Chapter 4","page":6,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=6#reader-content"},{"id":"id17:0:7","label":"Chapter 5","page":7,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=7#reader-content"},{"id":"id16:0:11","label":"Chapter 6","page":11,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=11#reader-content"},{"id":"id15:0:14","label":"Chapter 7","page":14,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=14#reader-content"},{"id":"id14:0:19","label":"Chapter 8","page":19,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=19#reader-content"},{"id":"id13:0:24","label":"Chapter 9","page":24,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=24#reader-content"},{"id":"id12:0:26","label":"Chapter 10","page":26,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=26#reader-content"},{"id":"id11:0:29","label":"Chapter 11","page":29,"pageUrl":"/books/3LD3DcTJ?page=29#reader-content"}]},"similarBooks":[{"idCatalog":186027,"shortId":"34aNnYdh","title":"Триумфальная арка","authorLine":"Эрих Мария Ремарк, Михаил Львович Рудницкий","primaryAuthorId":"5b4f5fdd-2a81-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/8f2187be-a441-11e7-a9a5-0cc47a5453d6/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/34aNnYdh"},{"idCatalog":7883,"shortId":"1X1cCKnN","title":"Крестный отец","authorLine":"Марио Пьюзо, Мария Иосифовна Кан","primaryAuthorId":"f652f6c4-2a81-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/4a1f6a32-4a51-11e5-87ef-0025905a06ea/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/1X1cCKnN"},{"idCatalog":95060,"shortId":"4IFEBf1G","title":"Цитадель","authorLine":"Арчибальд Джозеф Кронин, Мария Ефимовна Абкина","primaryAuthorId":"d4ac1332-2a82-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/4B151CA9-0571-4AE4-B235-D73F50F33D46/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/4IFEBf1G"},{"idCatalog":13186,"shortId":"3WgeijkS","title":"Замок Броуди","authorLine":"Арчибальд Джозеф Кронин, Мария Ефимовна Абкина","primaryAuthorId":"d4ac1332-2a82-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/db4e8919-f876-4733-9623-94fbd24087bb/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/3WgeijkS"},{"idCatalog":355251,"shortId":"2j5m32oj","title":"Сага о Форсайтах","authorLine":"Джон Голсуорси, Наталья Альбертовна Волжина, Мария Павловна Богословская, Мария Федоровна Лорие","primaryAuthorId":"8d817d86-2a82-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/cc40f15d-dcbc-11ea-81b5-0cc47a5f137d/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/2j5m32oj"},{"idCatalog":265186,"shortId":"1SsD5BbE","title":"Три любви","authorLine":"Арчибальд Джозеф Кронин, Ирина В. 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