2. Mr. Pickwick sets off
Poor Boz! Parliament was dissolved for the Christmas holidays, and now he could stay longer with the Hogarths. Now one could not think with longing that one still had to transcribe the transcript at night, take the report to the editor early in the morning, and then go to some stupid meeting and record the verbiage of homegrown politicians and think at the same time that both Kat and her dear sister Mary are waiting for him and curse with him the hard lot of a reporter. Now there is much less work on the newspaper, you can even take your time with the next sketch for Belle's Life and finish it better. But an agreement with Chapman and Hall, a publishing company, although still completely unknown, but it seems to be solid, makes him not go to the Hogarths, but stay at home and write.
He is writing a plan for the first issue of his work - a work that is not yet available. On a piece of paper, he informs his beloved Kat that he must sit down for this plan, which can no longer be postponed, because the Chapman and Hall firm instructed him to carry out the planned undertaking alone and this future work of his intends to be illustrated with woodcuts. He had already delayed the presentation of the plan, and now the deadline had come. On Friday morning, the firm must have a draft essay and, willy-nilly, he is forced to go on self-denial - to sit at home and write. On the letter he puts the date: "Wednesday, evening, 1835."
The firm of Chapman and Hall, as yet unknown but seemingly solid, agreed to abandon the original idea of the Nimrod Club. Charles' arguments convinced the firm. And Mrs. Chapman and Hall decided to give Bose freedom in choosing the plot of the future work. But Mr. Boz must remember: the releases of this work must not be late. The project of the club, whose members united for scientific research, did not arouse their objections. If Boz sends several members of the club - let it be the Pickwick Club - on a trip towards adventure, the firm wants only one thing: that these adventures be humorous, entertaining and that the reader would like.
Robert Seymour also turned down his offer. Wonderful. He will illustrate the work of Boz. Four woodcuts monthly, per issue.
And Charles began writing The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Of course, there will not be one among the readers who will find out if Mr. Pickwick, the president and founder of the club, is alone, indulging in scientific research, or among the clubmen there are other equally inquisitive minds. The reader must be satisfied that Mr. Pickwick has made his name known by a scientific essay. But what?
The topic should be related to the outskirts of London. This will make it possible to send Mr. Pickwick from London to other cities, and on the road adventures will meet their needs, they do not need to be invented.
Why not, in this case, make fun of the fishermen who freeze for long hours with a fishing rod in their hands, sitting on the banks of numerous ponds in the London suburbs? Mr. Pickwick can be made the funniest variety of this comic breed - a learned fisherman who wrote a famous treatise on some small fish. Members of the club should be shocked by the scientific merits of this scientific work and, bowing to the brilliant research of a scientist in Hemstead ponds, they can send him to observe not over fish, but over people and customs. The more grandiloquently the goals and motives that prompted the members of the club to send their president, and in addition to him three other gentlemen, out of London, out of London, the more comical will be the plot.
And then you can forget about the club and set off with four clubmen along the roads of Middlesex. It is only necessary to stipulate that Mr. Pickwick and his companions will report their observations to the club, for the glory and prosperity of science.
But what should a pundit look like, Mr. Pickwick?
Robert Seymour believed that a pundit, immersed in research for the benefit of mankind, does not pay due attention to gluttony, and therefore it is better to portray him as a lean, tall gentleman. The artist's considerations were not unfounded, and Charles did not mind. Seymour even sketched a lean Mr. Pickwick.
Mr. Chapman, head of the firm, advised changing appearance club president. The public is not used to skinny comic characters. In Richmond, not far from London, lives his friend, an elderly gentleman with a very well-fed round face, adorned with glasses, and with a solid paunch. The gentleman loves to be smart, despite his extremely plump thighs, he loves to wear tight pants, which causes the lady to protest.
Mr. Chapman must have succeeded in describing him, since both Charles and Seymour decided to replace the thin Pickwick with a fat one. Charles, on reflection, came to the conclusion that new look perhaps more suited to Mr. Pickwick. He really had no intention of turning Pickwick into a dry scholar, for the president of the club had been a businessman before, and when he had amassed a small but quite independent fortune for himself, he gave his brain to the cause of progress and the good of mankind.
Thus the Richmond lover of mouse-colored tights and black spats, Mr. John Foster, unknowingly stepped out from under Seymour's engraving needle as Mr. Samuel Pickwick.
This transformation turned out to be dissatisfied with one person, namely, Charles's new friend, Mr. Forster, a writer. When Charles told him about the prototype of a deep researcher of the fish population in suburban ponds, Mr. Forster was almost offended. His name is pronounced exactly like the name of a gentleman from Richmond, and besides, they are namesakes. Mr. Forster was ready to see in this coincidence deep meaning and at first refused to recognize it as accidental.
In sending Mr. Pickwick on a journey for the progress of science and for educational purposes, it was necessary to give companions to the president of the club.
Charles gave him three young gentlemen as companions. The first of them he made a lover of the fair sex, but, despite his weak heart against the charms of a lady, young Mr. Tupman had not yet tied the knot of marriage. The second, Mr. Winkle, he endowed with athletic inclinations, and the third, Mr. Snodgras, with poetic inclinations. All three companions saw in Mr. Pickwick a leader and revered him as a model not only of learning, but of virtue.
So the four Pickwickians were invented. Mr. Pickwick is put into a cab and sent to the passenger carriage station. The young members of the club were to wait for him there, and from there all four were to go in search of adventure.
However, Charles's imagination did not allow him to wait until the Pickwickians left London. The beginning of the first adventure took place in a cab in which Mr. Pickwick was heading to the place of rendezvous with his young friends. Mr. Pickwick's inquisitiveness was a good motive for such an affair, and when the cabman suspected a spy in his passenger and began to crack down on all four Pickwickians with his fists, a new face could be brought into play.
In the law office of Mr. Blackmore, where Charles worked as a clerk, a certain Potter labored in the same role as a clerk. Like Charles, Potter loved theatrical performances; like Charles, he was a regular at the theatre. Charles learned it well, and, judging by the stranger who appeared on the very first pages of the Pickwick Papers, Clerk Potter, above all, had a peculiar manner of blurting out separate phrases, not connecting them with other punctuation marks than ellipses, and these phrases were not connected with each other by ordinary logical bonds. You can also think that the said Potter, in addition to his peculiar manner of speaking, had a Munchausen gift, not embarrassed, to invent fables ...
Thus, in the first steps of the Pickwickians on the path of adventure that the publishing firm of Chapman and Hall expected from them, the unforgettable Mr. Jingle appeared.
Charles wrote, scribbled, and re-wrote the moving dialogue between the Pickwickians and a newly acquired acquaintance, describing their arrival in Rochester, where he decided to send them to a charity ball where they were to embark on an adventure.
But I had to break away from Pickwick for both the sketch requested by the editor of Belle's Life and the reportage requested by the editor of the Morning Chronicle. True, the Christmas holidays were in full swing, approaching New Year, and there was unusually little reporter work, but Charles had long since begun writing a two-act vaudeville with the music "Country Coquettes." And no matter how hard he tried to keep the vaudeville manuscript out of his sight, nothing came of it. Again and again he corrected the vaudeville, and then, almost without pause, moved on to the Pickwick manuscript. It surprised him that Pickwick didn't get in the way of vaudeville, and those two opuses didn't get in the way of the weekly sketches.
Kate and Mary were aware of all the events that lay in wait for Mr. Pickwick and his young friends. But you can't sit at the desk at the Farnival Inn and in the Hogarths' drawing room at the same time, and as much as you want to be at Kat's, you have to send her a note: "In this moment I have put Pickwick and his friends in the Rochester carriage, and they are riding without hindrance in the company of a subject quite unlike those whom I have hitherto described, who, I flatter myself, will certainly succeed. I want to take them from the ball to the hotel before I go to bed; I suppose it will take me up to at least an hour or two. The publishers will be here in the morning, so it's easy for you to understand that I have no choice but to sit at the table.
Charles finished the first pages of Pickwick at the very beginning of the new year. Chapman and Hall approved the beginning, handed over the manuscript for typesetting. Soon proof proofs were handed over to Seymour. He took up his pencil and sketched the first drawing of twelve gentlemen around the meeting table listening to Mr. Pickwick waving his hand as he spoke.
Mr. Chapman's friend, who lived in Richmond, could be satisfied: the president of the Pickwick Club was dressed in exactly the same trousers as he wore. Like a kid glove, the pants fit very rounded shapes, which he also had. And just like him, the president of the club was addicted to black socks. In order that reading England might soon be able to contemplate these details of the toilet without hindrance, Robert Seymour made burly Mr. Samuel Pickwick climb into a chair.
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Mr Pickwick Essentials actor in Charles Dickens' first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Events unfold in -1828. Samuel Pickwick decides to expand his ideas about the world, therefore, within the framework of the Pickwick Club, he creates a correspondent society whose goals were constant travel and "scientific observations" of his contemporaries. On the very first day after the founding of the Correspondent Society, Pickwick is ready for adventure:
Charles Dickens paints old England from its most varied sides, glorifying either her good nature, or the abundance of living and sympathetic forces in her, which chained to her the best sons of the petty bourgeoisie. He portrays old England in the most good-natured, optimistic, noblest old eccentric, whose name - Mr. Pickwick - has established itself in world literature somewhere not far from the great name of Don Quixote. If Dickens had written this book of his, not a novel, but a series of comic adventure pictures, with a deep calculation, first of all, to win over the English public, flattering it, allowing it to enjoy the charm of such purely English positive and negative types as Pickwick himself, the unforgettable Samuel Weller - a wise man in livery, Jingle, etc., one might marvel at the fidelity of his instincts. But rather here she took her youth and the days of her first success. This success has been carried to extraordinary heights. new job Dickens, and we must do him justice: he immediately used the high rostrum on which he ascended, forcing the whole of England to laugh until colic at the cascade of curiosities of the Pickwickiad.
Pickwick's personality
- From the first pages of the novel, Charles Dickens portrays Mr. Pickwick as a good-natured, honest, disinterested English gentleman, reincarnated in the course of the novel from a fussy, charming loafer into a heroic-comic benefactor, who exists in order to help his neighbors in arranging their happiness. However, according to the author’s deeper idea, there are no changes in Pickwick, the reader changes as the novel is read: after reading the first chapters, he associates Pickwick with stereotypical ideas about the rich as stupid loafers, towards the end of the novel the stereotypes are erased, and in Pickwick the reader sees already a noble man.
- The reader will certainly remember the shining eyes and kind smile of Mr. Pickwick, which appeared more than once on his face.
Samuel Pickwick is a literary character created by Charles Dickens. Mr. Pickwick is a rich old gentleman, Esq., founder and permanent president of the Pickwick Club.
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Mr Pickwick is the main character in the first novel by Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Events unfold in 1827-1828. Samuel Pickwick decides to expand his understanding of the world, therefore, within the framework of the Pickwick Club, he creates a correspondent society whose goals were constant travel and "scientific observations" of contemporaries. On the very first day after the establishment of the Correspondent Society, Pickwick is ready for adventure:
“Shave, dress and coffee were over quickly; In less than an hour, Mr. Pickwick, suitcase in hand, spyglass in his coat pocket, and notebook in his waistcoat pocket, ready to receive any discovery worthy of attention, arrived at the coach station.
Charles Dickens paints old England from its most varied sides, glorifying either her good nature, or the abundance of living and sympathetic forces in her, which chained to her the best sons of the petty bourgeoisie. He depicts old England in the most good-natured, optimistic, noblest old eccentric, whose name - Mr. Pickwick - has established itself in world literature somewhere not far from the great name of Don Quixote. If Dickens had written this book of his, not a novel, but a series of comic, adventure pictures, with a deep calculation, first of all, to win over the English public, flattering it, allowing it to enjoy the charm of such purely English positive and negative types as Pickwick himself, the unforgettable Samuel Weller - a wise man in livery, Jingle, etc., one might marvel at the fidelity of his instincts. But rather here she took her youth and the days of her first success. This success was elevated to extraordinary heights by Dickens' new work, and we must do him justice: he immediately used the high rostrum on which he ascended, forcing all of England to laugh to colic at the cascade of curiosities of the Pickwickiad.
Pickwick's personality
From the first pages of the novel, Charles Dickens depicts Mr. Pickwick as a good-natured, honest, disinterested English gentleman, who reincarnated in the course of the novel from a fussy, charming idler into a heroic-comic benefactor, who exists in order to help his neighbors in arranging their happiness. However, according to the author’s deeper idea, there are no changes in Pickwick, the reader changes as the novel is read: after reading the first chapters, he associates Pickwick with stereotypical ideas about the rich as stupid loafers, towards the end of the novel, stereotypes are erased and in Pickwick the reader sees already a noble person.
The reader will certainly remember the shining eyes and kind smile of Mr. Pickwick, which appeared more than once on his face.
Samuel Weller, Pickwick's servant, asks him to let him go to see his father. Pickwick's response was:
“Of course, Sam, of course! said Mr. Pickwick, his eyes sparkling with pleasure at this display of filial affection on the part of his servant and companion. “Of course, Sam!”
Old firecracker. Sometimes Pickwick's kindness got him in trouble. Once Pickwick was deceived by a servant of a cunning villain - Alfred Jingle, who sent Mr. Pickwick to a women's boarding house, he, in turn, guided by the desire to expose the fraudster, went to the boarding house. However, the women who rented a dwelling in a boarding house perceived Pickwick as a thief and raised the alarm, and Jingle and his servant at that time leave the city, calling the deceived Samuel Pickwick an old firecracker.
Mr Pickwick could take care of himself. In Fleet Debtors' Prison, where the great man ended up because he did not want to pay the swindlers Dodson and Fogg for a lost case in court, a prisoner named Zephyr tore Pickwick's nightcap off his head and put it on another drunken gentleman. Pickwick, of course, took this as a mockery and stabbed the offender in the chest:
"Pickwick, without warning of his intention, jumped energetically out of bed and struck Zephyr in the chest with such a deft blow that he largely deprived him of that ease of breathing that is sometimes associated with the name of Zephyr."
A positively beautiful character. Samuel Pickwick, along with Don Quixote and Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, is often included in the group of positively beautiful heroes.
Named after Pickwick:
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Pickwick's syndrome - alveolar hypoventilation, accompanied by increased drowsiness. Observed in severe obesity. In fact, Mr. Pickwick has nothing to do with this syndrome, but in the novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, there is a fat guy Joe, who suffered from severe obesity and often slept.
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Charles Dickens paints old England from its most varied sides, glorifying either her good nature, or the abundance of living and sympathetic forces in her, which chained to her the best sons of the petty bourgeoisie. He portrays old England in the most good-natured, optimistic, noblest old eccentric, whose name - Mr. Pickwick - has established itself in world literature somewhere not far from the great name of Don Quixote. If Dickens had written this book of his, not a novel, but a series of comic adventure pictures, with a deep calculation, first of all, to win over the English public, flattering it, allowing it to enjoy the charm of such purely English positive and negative types as Pickwick himself, the unforgettable Samuel Weller - a wise man in livery, Jingle, etc., one might marvel at the fidelity of his instincts. But rather here she took her youth and the days of her first success. This success was elevated to extraordinary heights by Dickens' new work, and we must do him justice: he immediately used the high rostrum on which he ascended, forcing all of England to laugh to colic at the cascade of curiosities of the Pickwickiad.
Pickwick's personality
- From the first pages of the novel, Charles Dickens portrays Mr. Pickwick as a good-natured, honest, disinterested English gentleman, reincarnated in the course of the novel from a fussy, charming loafer into a heroic-comic benefactor, who exists in order to help his neighbors in arranging their happiness. However, according to the author’s deeper idea, there are no changes in Pickwick, the reader changes as the novel is read: after reading the first chapters, he associates Pickwick with stereotypical ideas about the rich as stupid loafers, towards the end of the novel the stereotypes are erased, and in Pickwick the reader sees already a noble man.
- The reader will certainly remember the shining eyes and kind smile of Mr. Pickwick, which appeared more than once on his face.
- old firecracker. Sometimes Pickwick's kindness got him in trouble. Once Pickwick was deceived by the servant of a cunning villain - Alfred Jingle, who sent Mr. Pickwick to a women's boarding house. He, in turn, guided by the desire to expose the fraudster, went to the boarding house, but the women who rented a dwelling in the boarding house perceived Pickwick as a thief and raised the alarm. At this time, Jingle leaves town with a servant, calling the deceived Samuel Pickwick an old firecracker.
- Mr Pickwick could take care of himself. In Fleet Debt Prison, where the great husband ended up because he did not want to pay the swindlers Dodson and Fogg for a lost case in court, one prisoner named Zephyr tore off Pickwick's nightcap and put it on another drunken gentleman. Pickwick, of course, took this as a mockery and stabbed the offender in the chest:
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- Non, laissez moi, [No, leave me,] - said the princess.And her voice sounded with such seriousness and suffering that the chirping of the birds immediately fell silent. They looked at the large, beautiful eyes, full of tears and thoughts, looking at them clearly and pleadingly, and realized that it was useless and even cruel to insist.
“Au moins changez de coiffure,” said the little princess. “Je vous disais,” she said reproachfully to m lle Bourienne, “Marieie a une de ces figures, auxquelles ce genre de coiffure ne va pas du tout.” Mais du tout, du tout. Changez de grace. [At least change your hairstyle. Marie has one of those faces that this kind of hairstyle does not suit at all. Please change.]
- Laissez moi, laissez moi, tout ca m "est parfaitement egal, [Leave me, I don't care,]" answered the voice, barely holding back tears.
M lle Bourienne and the little princess had to admit to themselves that they were a princess. Marya in this form was very bad, worse than ever; but it was already too late. She looked at them with the expression they knew, an expression of thought and sadness. This expression did not inspire them with fear of Princess Mary. (She did not inspire this feeling in anyone.) But they knew that when this expression appeared on her face, she was silent and unshakable in her decisions.
- Vous changerez, n "est ce pas? [You change, don't you?] - said Lisa, and when Princess Mary did not answer, Lisa left the room.
Princess Mary was left alone. She did not fulfill Liza's wishes and not only did not change her hairstyle, but she did not even look at herself in the mirror. She, helplessly lowering her eyes and hands, silently sat and thought. She imagined her husband, a man, a strong, dominant and incomprehensibly attractive creature, suddenly transferring her into his own, completely different, happy world. Her child, such as she had seen yesterday with the nurse's daughter, seemed to her at her own breast. The husband stands and looks tenderly at her and the child. "But no, that's impossible: I'm too bad," she thought.
- Come for tea. The prince will come out now, - said the voice of the maid from behind the door.
She woke up and was horrified at what she was thinking. And before going down, she got up, entered the figurative and, gazing at the black face of the large image of the Savior illuminated by the lamp, stood in front of him with her hands folded for several minutes. There was an agonizing doubt in Princess Mary's soul. Is it possible for her to enjoy the joy of love, earthly love for a man? In thoughts of marriage, Princess Mary dreamed of both family happiness and children, but her main, strongest and most hidden dream was earthly love. The feeling was the stronger, the more she tried to hide it from others and even from herself. My God, she said, how can I suppress these thoughts of the devil in my heart? How can I renounce evil thoughts forever so that I can calmly do Your will? And as soon as she made this question, God already answered her in her own heart: “Desire nothing for yourself; do not seek, do not worry, do not envy. The future of the people and your fate must be unknown to you; but live so as to be ready for anything. If it pleases God to test you in the duties of marriage, be ready to do His will.” With this soothing thought (but still with the hope of fulfilling her forbidden, earthly dream), Princess Mary, sighing, crossed herself and went downstairs, not thinking about her dress, or her hair, or about how she would enter and what she would say. What could all this mean in comparison with the predestination of God, without whose will not a single hair will fall from a human head.
When Princess Mary entered the room, Prince Vasily and his son were already in the living room, talking with the little princess and m lle Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy gait, stepping on her heels, the men and m lle Bourienne rose, and the little princess, pointing at her to the men, said: Voila Marie! [Here is Marie!] Princess Marya saw everyone and saw them in detail. She saw the face of Prince Vasily, which for a moment seriously stopped at the sight of the princess and immediately smiled, and the face of the little princess, who read with curiosity on the faces of the guests the impression that Marie would make on them. She also saw m lle Bourienne, with her ribbon and beautiful face, and her eyes fixed on him as lively as ever; but she could not see him, she only saw something big, bright and beautiful moving towards her when she entered the room. First, Prince Vasily approached her, and she kissed the bald head, which bent over her hand, and answered his words that, on the contrary, she remembers him very well. Then Anatole approached her. She still hasn't seen him. She only felt a gentle hand, firmly taking her, and lightly touched her white forehead, over which beautiful blond hair was pomaded. When she looked at him, his beauty struck her. Anatopi, with the thumb of his right hand behind the buttoned button of his uniform, with his chest arched forward, and back with his back, swaying with one foot outstretched and slightly bowing his head, silently, cheerfully looked at the princess, apparently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not resourceful, not quick and not eloquent in conversations, but he had, on the other hand, the ability of calmness, precious to the world, and unalterable confidence. Shut up at the first meeting, a not self-confident person and show the consciousness of the indecency of this silence and the desire to find something, and it will not be good; but Anatole was silent, shaking his leg, cheerfully observing the princess's hairdo. It was evident that he could remain silent so calmly for a very long time. “If anyone is uncomfortable with this silence, then talk, but I don’t feel like it,” his appearance seemed to say. In addition, in dealing with women, Anatole had that manner that most of all inspires curiosity, fear and even love in women - a manner of contemptuous consciousness of his superiority. It was as if he was telling them with his appearance: “I know you, I know, but why bother with you? And you would be glad!” It may be that he did not think this when he met women (and it is even likely that he did not, because he did not think much at all), but he had such an appearance and such a manner. The princess felt this and, as if wanting to show him that she did not even dare to think about keeping him busy, she turned to the old prince. The conversation was general and lively, thanks to the voice and the sponge with the mustache, rising above the white teeth of the little princess. She met Prince Vasily with that trick of a joke, which is often used by talkatively cheerful people and which consists in the fact that between a person who is treated like that and herself, some long-established jokes and funny, partly not known to everyone, amusing memories are assumed, then as there are no such memories, as there were none between the little princess and Prince Vasily. Prince Vasily willingly succumbed to this tone; the little princess drew into this recollection of never-before funny incidents and Anatole, whom she hardly knew. M lle Bourienne also shared these common memories, and even Princess Mary felt with pleasure that she was drawn into this cheerful memory.
“Well, at least we’ll make full use of you now, dear prince,” the little princess said, in French, of course, to Prince Vasily, “it’s not like at our parties at Annette’s, where you always run away; remember cette chere Annette? [sweet Annette?]
