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Сборник цитат из произведений Джона Голсуорси

Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин

Настоящий сборник цитат из произведений известного английского автора Джона Голсуорси, написанных им в начале 20 века. Голсуорси был видной фигурой на литературной сцене своего века, и его произведения углубляются в сложности человеческой природы. Сборник предлагает заглянуть в сложные образы персонажей, которыми славится Голсуорси, демонстрируя цитаты, которые отражают его исследования любви, красоты и влияния общественных норм на жизнь отдельных людей. Цитаты взяты из таких крупных произведений, как «Сага о Форсайтах», а также из его эссе и пьес.

Виктор Никитин

Сборник цитат из произведений Джона Голсуорси

QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY

CONTENTS:

The Forsyte Saga:

Volume 1. The Man of Property

Volume 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte

In Chancery

Volume 3. Awakening

To Let

Other Novels:

The Dark Flower

The Freelands

Beyond

Villa Rubein and Other Stories

Villa Rubein

A Man of Devon

A Knight

Salvation of a Forsyte

The Silence

Saint's Progress

The Island Pharisees

The Country House

Fraternity

The Patrician

The Burning Spear

Five Short Tales

The First and Last

A Stoic

The Apple Tree

The Juryman

Indian Summer of a Forsyte

Essays and Studies:

Concerning Life

Inn of Tranquility

Magpie over the Hill

Sheep-shearing

Evolution

Riding in the Mist

The Procession

A Christian

Wind in the Rocks

My Distant Relative

The Black Godmother

Quality

The Grand Jury

Gone

Threshing

That Old-time Place

Romance—three Gleams

Memories

Felicity

Concerning Letters

A Novelist's Allegory

Some Platitudes Concerning Drama

Meditation on Finality

Wanted—Schooling

On Our Dislike of Things as They Are

The Windlestraw

About Censorship

Vague Thoughts on Art

Plays:

First Series:

The Silver Box

Joy

Strife

Second Series:

The Eldest Son

The Little Dream

Justice

Third Series:

The Fugitive

The Pigeon

The Mob

Fourth Series:

A Bit O' Love

The Foundations

The Skin Game

Six Short Plays:

The First and The Last

The Little Man

Hall-marked

Defeat

The Sun

Punch and Go

THE FORSYTE SAGA:

VOLUME 1. THE MAN OF PROPERTY

PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT:

The simple truth, which underlies the whole story, that where sex attraction is utterly and definitely lacking in one partner to a union, no amount of pity, or reason, or duty, or what not, can overcome a repulsion implicit in Nature.

The tragedy of whose life is the very simple, uncontrollable tragedy of being unlovable, without quite a thick enough skin to be thoroughly unconscious of the fact. Not even Fleur loves Soames as he feels he ought to be loved. But in pitying Soames, readers incline, perhaps, to animus against Irene: After all, they think, he wasn't a bad fellow, it wasn't his fault; she ought to have forgiven him, and so on!

"Let the dead Past bury its dead" would be a better saying if the Past ever died. The persistence of the Past is one of those tragi-comic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.

The figure of Irene, never, as the reader may possibly have observed, present, except through the senses of other characters, is a concretion of disturbing Beauty impinging on a possessive world.

She turned back into the drawing-room; but in a minute came out, and stood as if listening. Then she came stealing up the stairs, with a kitten in her arms. He could see her face bent over the little beast, which was purring against her neck. Why couldn't she look at him like that?

But though the impingement of Beauty and the claims of Freedom on a possessive world are the main prepossessions of the Forsyte Saga, it cannot be absolved from the charge of embalming the upper-middle class.

When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died—but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their propert