The famous novel by Alexander Green, written in 1928. The work belongs to the fantasy genre. It contains both romance and dramatic moments. The main character, a young man, Thomas Harvey, tries to find his dream, makes mistakes, and fleetingly falls in love. In some ways he resembles the author himself.

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Main characters

• Thomas Harvey - searching for his dream, striving for the ideal.
• Captain Gez, an unpleasant man, landed Harvey on the open sea.
• Butler is a sailor on the ship “Running on the Waves.”
• Filatr is a friend of Thomas and Desi.
• Beach Senuel - Harvey's fleeting love.
• Desi is the future wife of Thomas Harvey.
• Frezi Grant is a girl who saved sailors.

A young man named Thomas Harvey was forced to stay in the city of Lisse due to a serious illness. . One evening Harvey I went to my friend Steers to have a little fun and play cards. While playing, he heard a woman’s quiet voice say the phrase: “Running on the waves.” No one heard the voice except him. Before this event, Harvey saw an extraordinary girl get off the ship in the port. She carried herself with such dignity and grandeur that it seemed she could subjugate the whole the world. Thomas tried to find out who this charming stranger was. He managed to find out her name - Biche Seniel.

Harvey was bothered by the fact that no one else heard the mysterious voice except him. It seemed to him that there was some kind of connection between the girl who got off the ship and the incident while playing cards. In the evening, walking in the port, Thomas saw a ship with a name similar to the novel and his doubts were only confirmed.

The young man decided to set off on this ship, but Captain Ghez refused to take him on board the ship without the owner’s permission. Harvey managed to get permission and got on board. The crew of sailors made an unpleasant impression on him; they did not look like seafarers.

During the sea voyage, Harvey found out that the first owner of the ship was Ned Seniel, Beach's father. After Ned's ruin, Captain Gez bought the ship from him for a pittance.

At the next stop Three women boarded. Sitting in his cabin, Thomas heard a drunken captain threatening one of them. The young man intervened in the quarrel, and a fight broke out between him and Gez. The captain was furious and ordered Harvey to be put in a boat and released into the open sea, dooming him to certain death. Amid the ridicule of the crew, a girl jumped into Harvey's boat.

Having sailed out to sea, the girl spoke, and Thomas realized that it was her voice he heard at the game at Steers. She said her name, Frezi Grant, and asked Harvey to sail south, where another ship would see him. Harvey promised not to tell anyone about his meeting with her, after which Frezi jumped out of the boat and ran over the waves. A few hours later, Thomas was actually picked up by a ship. On it he heard the legend about the beautiful girl Frezi, who is everyone who is shipwrecked. On the ship, the young man meets Daisy.

When the ship reached Gel-Gyu, Thomas Harvey went ashore and found himself in the center of a great celebration. Mixed with the crowd, he did not notice how he approached the monument, on which he saw the inscription "Running on the waves". As it turned out, the founder of the city was the navigator Williams Hobbes, who was shipwrecked in these places. Then Frezi Grant helped him, she led him to the shore, and later he founded a settlement there.

Near the monument, an unfamiliar woman called Harvey and said that a stranger was waiting for him. Thomas had no doubt that this was Biche Seniel, and he hurried to meet her. But it was Desi. Disappointed that Thomas called her by her first name, Beeche, she left. A few minutes later, Biche herself suddenly appeared. The purpose of her visit is to ransom the ship from Captain Gez.

The next day, Harvey went to the captain along with a member of his crew, Butler. When they went up to his hotel room, they discovered that the captain was dead. All suspicions fell on Biche Seniel, but Butler confessed to the murder. As it turned out, the captain was transporting opium on the ship, and Butler came to him for his share of the profits. But in the room I witnessed an unpleasant scene. The captain came with the young lady, there was a quarrel between them, and the girl jumped out of the doorway onto the stairs. In a fit of rage, Gez attacked Butler, who killed him.

Biche did not want to keep the ship with a tarnished reputation and sold it at auction. Harvey told her the story of meeting Frezi Grant, but Beach did not believe him. Thomas thought that Desi would have reacted differently to this story, but she is engaged and there is no point in looking for a meeting with her.

Time has passed, Harvey and Desi met by chance. They soon got married and began living in a house on the beach.

One day, Doctor Filatr came to visit them and told them the continuation of the story.

Ship with mysterious name For unknown reasons, all crew members left, and now the ship is rusting on the shore of a deserted island. Biché Senuel was happily married.

At the end of the book, Desi confesses, that she has always believed in the existence of Frezi Grant and in response hears a voice from the sea.

This is Green's "Running on the Waves" summary.

“Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life, the Unfulfilled calls us, and we look around, trying to understand where the call came from. Then, waking up in the midst of our world, painfully realizing and cherishing every day, we peer into life with our whole being, trying to see if the Unfulfilled will begin to come true? Isn't its image clear? Isn't it now only necessary to stretch out your hand to grab and hold its faintly flickering features? Meanwhile, time passes, and we sail past the high, foggy shores of the Unfulfilled, talking about the affairs of the day "

A. Green, "Running on the Waves"

Green arrived in Feodosia in May 1924 and began to live by the sea. Six Feodosian years ended up in his creative biography unusually fruitful. His most significant works were born there: the stories “The Shining World” in 1924, “The Golden Chain” in 1925, “Running on the Waves” in 1928, “Jessie and Morgiana” in 1929, as well as a series of short stories. He lived in a rented apartment with an ascetic environment, and in the clearing of the street he could see the sea. The whistles of ships could be heard from there, and the blue of the evening could be seen through the closed shutters. In the story “Running on the Waves,” Alexander Green wrote: “I settled in an apartment on the right corner of the building on Amilego Street, one of the most beautiful streets of Lissa. The house stood at the lower end of the street... behind the dock, a place of ship debris and silence, broken, not too intrusively, by the language of the port day, softened by distance.” It seems that Alexander Green was talking about himself, about the apartment where he settled in September 1924 and lived for several years, where his best books were written. Here he invented an entire country called Greenland, and populated it with characters who bore strange names and lived in cities with the same exotic names. “He remained distrustful of reality throughout his life,” Konstantin Paustovsky later wrote. “He always tried to get away from her, believing that it was better to live with elusive dreams than with the “trash and rubbish” of every day.”

Running on the waves

The sea knows many legends. Green added one more to them: about a girl gliding through the waves as if through a ballroom, and about a ship named after her. A special fate awaited anyone who stepped onto the deck of this ship...

"Frezi stood there, biting her lip. At that time, as luck would have it, the young lieutenant took it into his headgive her a compliment. “You are so light,” he said, “that if you wanted, you could run across the water to the island without getting your feet wet.” What do you think? “Have it your way, sir,” she said. “I have already promised myself to be there, I will keep it or die.” And so, before they had time to stretch out their hand, she jumped up on the railing, thought, turned pale and waved her hand to everyone. “Farewell!” said Frezi. “I don’t know what’s happening to me, but I can’t retreat.” With these words she jumped off and, screaming, stood on the wave like a flower.
No one, not even her father, could say a word, everyone was so amazed. She turned around and smiled and said, “It’s not as hard as I thought.
- Tell my fiancé that he won’t see me again. Farewell to you too, dear father! Farewell, my homeland!"
While this was happening, everyone stood as if tied up. And so, from wave to wave, jumping and skipping, Frezi Grant ran to that island. Then the fog fell, the water trembled, and when the fog cleared, neither the girl nor that island was visible, as it rose from the sea and sank back to the bottom."

(Alexander Green)

"Novel-dream. Novel-flight. Novel-mirage.

Green carefully released him into life with this special feeling,
settled in your heart, - with a feeling of Touching the Miracle.
"Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life,
The unfulfilled is calling us, and we look around, trying to understand
where did the call come from? Then, waking up in the midst of his world,
painfully realizing and cherishing every day,
we peer into life, trying with all our being
to see if the Unfulfilled is beginning to come true?”
Each of us knows what it is like, his Unfulfilled,
each of us is waiting for him. But will that desired hour come?
It might be worth following Green's other advice:
"I understood one simple truth. It is to do this
so-called do-it-yourself miracles. When the main thing for a person is to receive the dearest nickel, it is easy to give this nickel, but,
when the soul conceals the grain of a fiery plant - a miracle,
give him this miracle if you are able.
He will have a new soul and you will have a new one.
When the warden himself releases the prisoner,
when the billionaire gives the scribe a villa,
an operetta singer and a safe, and the jockey will hold the horse at least once
for the sake of another horse who is unlucky -
then everyone will understand how pleasant it is, how inexpressibly wonderful.
But there are no less miracles: a smile, fun, forgiveness, and the right word spoken at the right time.
To own this is to own everything."

Artist Arthur Braginsky

Everything will now go differently than before...

Agashina Diana

The review of A.S. Green’s novel “Running on the Waves” corresponds to the structure of the genre, is not a simple retelling of the text, there are elements of analysis of the work.

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III city literary readings

"Russia is like destiny..."

Section “In the world of children's literature. “When we open a book, we open the world.” Anniversary books in 2016.

REVIEW

based on the book by A.S. Green “Running on the Waves”

performed : student of grade 6 “B”

MBOU "School No. 178" Samara

Agashina Diana

supervisor : Russian teacher

Language and literature Gagarina O.V.

Samara, 2016

I think many people associate the name of Alexander Stepanovich Green with the story “ Scarlet Sails" I really liked this book too. Such a gentle and “light” Assol, completely different from all the people who surrounded her. And handsome Gray, I think, is the dream of many girls. He is so brave, responsible, courageous and capable of actions that are incomprehensible to ordinary people, but from which you immediately come to delight.

Having learned that there was another book by this author in my library, I became interested in it. This is the novel "Wave Runner". The name itself already speaks of some kind of magic. Besides, I once heard such an expression in a song. In general, I decided to read this novel.

I will not hide that at first I found the book a little boring. But the more I read, the more interesting I was about what would happen next. And when the novel came to an end, I was a little upset that I would no longer be able to be in such a wonderful atmosphere.

This work raises such important and always current issues, like love and self-denial, truth and lies, fear and overcoming it, fortitude and the inability to rise above the vanity of life.

The events in the novel take place either in Lissa, or at sea on the ship “Running on the Waves,” or on the ship “Nyrok,” or in the city of Gel-Gyu, or in Leg. But in any case, all actions take place in deep connection with the sea.

The main character of the work is Thomas Harvey, who is looking for his Unfulfilled. He accidentally sees a beautiful girl in the seaport. He later learns that her name is Biche Seniel. Harvey wants to find her at all costs, and goes on a journey across the sea with the not very friendly captain of the ship from a telling name"Running on the waves".

This phrase is the center of the story. Every time we hear or see it in a new and new guise. This is either a ship, or a certain girl from a legend, or a statue in a port city.

Another feature of the novel is that the reader, together with the hero of the work, involuntarily returns to something that, it would seem, will no longer be possible to find out. In real life, we rarely find out what happened to a person who was once close to us. But in the book, Harvey learns about the death of the ship “Running on the Waves”, about the further fate of Beach Seniel, about Desi, with whom he parted in a different way than he would have liked.

If we talk about the plot, it revolves around the journey by sea of ​​Thomas Harvey, to whom Dr. Filatr prescribed a change of scenery after an illness.

Harvey, as in any adventure novel, goes through many trials before meeting his future wife. And only from the last chapters of the novel do we learn that Harvey realized that he had always been looking for Desi. It was the memory of her that always warmed his soul. I'm very glad that everything ended so well. Desi and Harvey are married, live in the house of their dreams, can host friends and openly say what they think without hiding the truth.

Another feature of the work is that we almost all the time hear what he thinks main character what feelings he experiences. This moment, I think, greatly distinguishes the book from any movie. Where it is not always clear how the hero really feels.

“I shuddered - the blood rushed into my temples. More than one sigh of amazement—a greater, more complex feeling—held in me the beating of my loudly then speaking heart. I took a breath twice before I could once again read and understand these amazing words that rushed into my brain like a volley of arrows.” This describes the moment when Harvey accidentally saw the name of the ship, which just recently suddenly very clearly popped up in his brain.

“While these explanations were taking place, I was so stunned, confused and contradictory in my thoughts that, although I avoided looking at Biche for a long time, I still asked her with my eyes. Unnoticed by others, and immediately her look told me exactly: “No.” It talks about the feelings that Harvey experienced when he was in the hotel room where he discovered Ghez's corpse.

Some duality can also be seen in the fact that Biche and Desi are wearing the same dresses at the carnival. Harvey confuses them.

This duality is not just symbolic, it resembles the complexity of the character of almost any real person. After all, sometimes we are in such a hurry to believe in something magical, and sometimes we do not notice the beauty of the things around us, looking at the world indifferently. So Beach cannot believe in the existence of Frezi Grant, and Harvey does not want to give up his principles, distort the truth to please even the woman he loves.

It is also interesting that Frezi Grant is the most unrealistic woman, but she speaks like ordinary people. But Harvey sees Beach as something unreal, she seems to be floating above this dirty environment in which she found herself by accident. And when speaking or thinking about Desi, Harvey always remembers the feeling that remains from contact with something unusual.

Almost all the characters in the book are ambivalent. Even Captain Gez showed himself to be a very contradictory person. He either plays cards, having gotten pretty drunk, or plays the violin quite decently, or practically throws Harvey into the open sea, or tells Beach about his love for her.

But still, the passion for profit, for easy and dishonest money destroys Gez and his assistant Butler, who kills his captain.

The language of the novel is also worthy of praise. Greene resorts to comparisons very often. For example: “Among the men there were two old men. The first, resembling an overweight, grinning bulldog, with his elbows wide apart, was smoking, rolling a huge cigar in his mouth; the other laughed..."; “He rushed after me like a dog”; “I liked her like a warm wind in my face; “I was lost, like a stone falling into water.”; “Like marble in the beam, her hand sparkled.”

There are also metaphors in the novel. For example: “I stunned myself with such a portion of whiskey that I myself would have considered monstrous at another time, and buried myself in bed...”; “the chorus of thoughts flew by and died down”; “in the distance above us a light avalanche of the east began to move, sending bright spears of advancing fire hidden by the clouds.”

There are also epithets: “wild night”, “sudden beauty”, “in its greedy hope”, “an elegant black car among that colorful and deafening traffic”.

The details of the characters’ portraits play a special role. They give a very accurate description of their owner.

“I stopped the woman. A fat, loud woman of about forty with a scarf tied around her head and a brush in her hands, having learned that we were inquiring whether Gez was at home, frantically pointed to the opposite door at the far end. “Is he at home? I don’t and don’t want to know!” she announced, quickly pushing stray dirty hair onto the floor of the handkerchief with her fingers and becoming excited.” The portrait of Ghez also evokes some disgust: “his profile went from the roots of his hair with a thrown back, nervous forehead - an almost vertical line of a long nose, a dreary upper lip and a stubbornly protruding lower lip - to a heavy, steeply turned chin. The line of a flabby cheek, propping up an eye, was connected below with a gloomy mustache.”

There is a lot of dialogue in the novel, which gives the story a certain realism, even when Harvey talks to Frezi Grant.

Another feature of the novel is that even seemingly insignificant people are capable of great deeds. Like, for example, Cook, who at first seemed to me a gossip and a bore. But later we learn that he died (“he was shot during an attack on the Graca Parana house”). Death for a statue... Not every person is capable of this.

After reading the book, I wanted to know what the critic thought about this novel, how he understood the essence of the work.

“During his life, Greene saw a lot of grief and people crushed by life. He saw even more disfigured souls, a universal disease of lack of spirituality, the consequence of which was various vices and flaws: individualism, insensitivity to beauty, selfishness, mutual understanding. Green wanted to see people differently, better; he envisioned the ideal of a harmonious person, a free personality with a rich spiritual life, with a developed sense of beauty, with respect for inner world others."

Critic V. Kharchev calls this novel “the most bizarre and mysterious, enigmatic and magical.”

I would advise all girls to read “Running on the Waves” by A.S. Green. Boys will also find many interesting moments in it, but I think they are far from understanding the book, because it teaches not only courage, but also the ability and desire to see beauty where others do not notice it. And for modern boys It's hard to sacrifice anything for girls. So it's hard to feel inner beauty people, girls. But Harvey didn’t even regret at all that he had given so much money to Gez for him to take him on his ship. And Gavrey did not feel sorry for the money, with which he bought and built (with the help of Toval) a dream house for Desi.

This book made me think about very complex, adult questions. Why is it so difficult to stay the course and not obey the opinion of the majority? How to make your life more interesting and notice the beauty and miracles around you? How to learn to trust again the people who betrayed you once? Why real life sometimes looks like a carnival of vanity, and the rich inner life can a person go unnoticed?

Read the novel “The Wave Runner” and you will find something of your own in it that you have not yet understood or that you have not yet had time to think about. Enjoy your reading, dear people!

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The romance of the sea, the mysterious stories of ships, and mysterious sailor legends lie at the heart of “Running on the Waves,” a novel that constitutes the apotheosis of Green’s romanticism. Everything here is permeated with it - including the characters. goodies, and their worldview, and attitude towards each other, and pictures of nature, carnival, and a description of the sculpture “Running”. The main characters of the work are sharply divided into two camps. Some - and all the author’s sympathies are on their side - are romantics in their soul, in their perception of life: Thomas Harvey, Dzzi, Frezi Grant, the townspeople guarding the sculpture of the “Running Woman”; others are prosaic, thoughtful natures: Bice Seniel, Tobbogan, the city's rich, seeking to destroy the monument. These are sober thinking people devoid of imagination, a poetic attitude to life, are one-sided and callous. They live in the real world, everything for them has its own specific, direct or indirect, value, everything must be logical and clear. The smart, but too rational girl Beach cannot believe in the existence of Frezi Grant, the girl from the legend, the patroness of sailors. How many times does she repeat: “It didn’t happen, Harvey.” “It was,” he replies, “and this is the reason for their divergence.” Tobbogan, looking at the cheerful, riotous carnival in honor of the city’s centenary, thoughtfully says: “Just think what kind of money wasted on trifles... if you gave me one thousandth of this ruined money, I would build a house and start a good farm” - and The enthusiastic, romantic Daisy leaves him. Romantics live completely differently in this world. They are inspired by a power “more commanding than passion or mania” - the power of a dream, a romantic expectation of happiness, “the power of the Unfulfilled,” as Harvey calls this feeling. It guides a person, and, obeying it, he commits actions that would seem meaningless from the point of view of a “realist,” but only complete surrender of oneself into the hands of this force brings happiness to a person. And at the same time, this novel is surprisingly full of realistic details. They are in descriptions of ships, and in scenes of street carnival processions, and in sketches of nature. This combination of the romantic spirituality of the events described with the realistic details surrounding them creates a completely unique poetic style of the novel and makes it one of the most popular works Green. In “Running on the Waves,” one very interesting idea appears, seemingly completely uncharacteristic of Green. Usually his romantic hero is a proud loner. He alone confronts the prose of life and, with beautiful courage, alone withstands the blows of reality. Here romantic heroes- not alone. They are united not only by personal connections and sympathies, but also by a common cause - the protection of the Running Woman statue. The townspeople have rallied into a team protecting the sculpture, and even Harvey, a stranger in this city, quickly becomes an insider in it, not only because of his common views with the townspeople, but also because he feels in their collective the only force that can save the “Running” .The spirit of collectivism, which binds the positive heroes and gives them strength in the struggle, is a feature of the romance of this work

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