Novel "Cathedral" Oles Honchar: characteristics of images

In 1968, the novel The Cathedral was published by Oles Honchar, a Ukrainian writer who created it from 1964 to 1967. Based on real facts and events.

Characteristics of the main images of the novel, as well as the ideological content of the work - the theme of this article. The characters of the novel "Cathedral" Oles Honchar to the Cathedral (Treasure) are related to spiritual development, their erudition, understanding of the past, as well as from the most ordinary human conscience. Trotsky Cathedral, located in the Dnepropetrovsk region, in the city of Novomoskovsk, served as a prototype of the temple described in the novel (the author's photo is presented in the review).

Nikolay Baglai

This hero appears before us at the beginning of the second paragraph of the novel. He is deeply convinced that right, righteous people live on Zachiplyantsi. In his factory village, Nicholas is in love. This hero of the work "Cathedral" Oles Honchar likes his hard-working citizens. However, the most complete, lightest of his love is the cathedral. Baglaya rejoices "music" "bath-domes" raised in the sky. He feels it in reality as the unsolved mystery of the world. The beauty of the creation of human hands and the beauty of the earth are perceived as a single whole. He is admired, surprised and powerful metallurgical plants, and a magical nearby nature. Baglay, however, can not accept the fact that the refineries are not provided for in the plants, and he set himself the goal of constructing it, because the air must necessarily be clean. The designer's enthusiasm for the hero testifies to the beauty of his intellectual efforts and intentions.

Elka

Elka - another character in the novel "Cathedral" Oles Honchar. She is one of the most attractive characters in the work. Her fate is similar to the unenviable fate that fell a lot of rural girls. They, when they grow up, leave where the eyes look from their native village in search of happiness. The fate of this heroine is complicated by the fact that she grew up without a father, a half-year-old at the farm. And when she crushed her mother in the clay, she became a round orphan. With great love, sincerely depicted the image of a simple village girl Oles Honchar. The novel "Cathedral" is a work, reading that, we peer into the pensive green eyes of this heroine, take her wanderings close to her heart, sympathize with her in grief, inflicted by soulless hypocrites and offenders, such as a nasty useless brigadier.

Volodka of the Lebed

Quite complex, even to some extent a mysterious phenomenon called literary critics the image of Volodya Lebed. Eugene Sverstyuk in his work entitled "Cathedral in the Woods" notes that this character is fundamentally new: the writer was able to show an image devoid of persistent criteria, free from human goals, to the brink of a robot. He splits values in one word, one touch. As in the mouth of a brilliant philosopher or poet everything acquires a higher meaning, the energy of life, meaning, so in Lebeda the reverse process takes place - everything goes out, decomposes and disintegrates.

Izot Ivanovich Lebed

Izot Ivanovich Lebed is a character who is a steelworker. This is a principled, honest man, whom Oles Honchar ("Cathedral") portrayed in the work. His characterization is given by Volodka as follows: he has a "Cossack freedom-loving soul". However, the son can not feel the terrible pain that his own father has caused, having spun him into a place from where there is only one road - to the cemetery.

Deep symbolic value is the image of Lebed-Nechuyvitra. It seems that the spirit of the Cossacks lives. He is also noted for his love of his native land. In the image of this, the experience of the steelmaker and the state guard of the Treasure was combined. In eternity, he moved away between the green floods and the clear waters of his native land.

The ideological sound of the novel

Polyphonic is the ideological sound of the novel, which was created by Oles Honchar ("Cathedral"). Its problems concern different aspects of society. The writer focused his attention on historical, philosophical, ethical, moral, environmental problems. The psychology of the spiritual poacher is debunked in the work. Unity of content and word is achieved. The work is marked by a high level of artistic skill.

The author did not set out to immerse himself in religious morality. The image of the cathedral for him is mainly a reminder of Cossack architecture. Gonchar also cherishes the spiritual genius of the knighthood of Zaporozhye, and his patriotic exploits both in the field of construction and art, and in battles with enemies. Our ancestors immortalized themselves in the beauty of this structure, which still fascinates everyone who sees him from afar or near, will go deeper into the design of this "poem" of Cossack architecture. And we unwittingly put before ourselves not the simple question that worried Baglay: "And where are our poems, in what way will our souls immortalize themselves?"

Questions that arise after reading

All the profound philosophical and ideological content of the novel is addressed to descendants. What did we create? What trace could be left in the history of our people? What was destroyed and what was built? With what sense will the descendants remember us?

Acts and wills of ancestors remind us of the duty to modernity and history, to the future and the past: how do we protect, respect national shrines? We must cherish the heritage of past centuries as a sacred memory. It should be multiplied and protected. All these thoughts and questions arise among many of those who read the novel "Cathedral" Oles Honchar. The summary of the work, of course, will not make you seriously think about it.

Publicistic pathos of the work

Designated polemic, journalistic pathos, "Cathedral" encourages each of us to cherish and cherish spiritual treasures, our cultural, historical and building heritage. The novel at the same time describes the negative manifestations of modernity. This is soullessness, bureaucracy, nihilistic attitude to culture, the spirit of destruction, consumer tendencies, disregard for the customs of the people, feelings of patriotism, folk songs. "Cathedral" sounds a symphony of greatness of the people, singing his creative genius.