Prologue and epilogue (from Greek prologos - preface; epilogos - afterword). If you look at the prologue and epilogue from the top of the plot, then they are on its very periphery - like the foot of a mountain. However, good books are read differently, at least not from the middle. The first and last pages are no less significant for us than the climactic ones.
The prologue and epilogue that matured in ancient Greek art are the product of the decomposition of syncretism and the memory of it. "Songs of a lyrical-epic nature seem to be the first natural separation from the connection between the choir and the rite," A. Veselovsky noted. On the contrary, playwrights still enjoy lyrical and epic support for a long time, realizing, however, that this is support from the outside. The rapid rotation of the dramatic collision inevitably pushed direct communication and attitude beyond the boundaries of plot action. This is how the prologue and epilogue came about.
In the ancient drama, the prologue is the historical, everyday or mythological prehistory of future events that sounds mainly performed by the choir, and the final alignment of forces is fixed in the epilogue, the moral and philosophical result of the work is summed up.
Gradually, there was a steady reduction in the prologue and epilogue, a weakening of their role. If in most of the tragedies of Aeschylus the conclusions and especially the introductions were detailed and multi-staged, then the ancient Roman playwrights sometimes managed only with direct stage action. Increasingly, it is perceived as self-sufficient. It seems that Shakespeare still has a lot of epilogues, and yet the great writer clearly doubts their necessity. In the future, in their usual static form, epilogues disappear for a long time from dramatic works, and prologues basically become off-stage: “prefaces”, “preliminaries”, “open letters”, “analysis” of the play by Corneille, Beaumarchais, Hugo were supplied already at publication.
The fate of the prologue and epilogue in the epic was different. In traditional epic genres (epopee, heroic poem, fairy tale), lyrical introductions and conclusions are kept to a minimum: in the Nibelungenlied, for example, two stanzas, the first and the last, were enough for them. The song and outcome are short in Russian epics. They perform, as it were, an ornamental or ritual function: "the gates are open - the gates are closed." Most often, the storyteller simply did not need the prologue and epilogue. The story is closed on the event, it consistently sets out one fate, one incident.
In the epic, the prologue and epilogue begin to assert themselves along with the development of individual creativity. In an enlightening novel (from Fielding, Goldsmith, Chernyshevsky), in such a didactic genre as a fable, the author seeks to give an exact direction for the reader's perception, to clearly establish his own thought. In the 19th century lyrics are increasingly invading the genre system of the epic: the story develops with its diverse deviations from the main narrative line, an essay appears, and the poem turns into a lyrical-epic formation. It is in opposition to it that now such plot components as the prologue and epilogue are determined. Here the writer expresses what cannot be expressed through the description of events. An example of a poetic epilogue is the final lyrical digression about the trinity bird in the first volume of Gogol's Dead Souls, and the prologue is the author's introduction from Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman. Of course, there are other forms of prologue: the main action can be preceded by landscapes (as, for example, in Chekhov's "Gooseberry"), by a generalizing image-symbol (the "Tatar" flower in L. Tolstoy's "Hadji Murad"), by a parable ("Data Tutashkhia » Ch. Amirejibi). In epic works of the XIX-XX centuries. prologue is a short overture. It sets the tone, sets the reader on a certain wave.
Even more often and, perhaps, more consciously, the epilogue is used in epic prose. Especially in the Russian classic novel. The epilogue ends most of the major works of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Goncharov's "Ordinary History". Note that exceptional digressions - such as "Part Two" of the "Epilogue" from Tolstoy's "War and Peace" - are relatively rare here. Usually in novel epilogues we have the same familiar faces. And yet, these are not just follow-up stories. The leap through space and time was made by realist writers in order to reveal the complexity of character, the unpredictability of the command of a person who finds himself in a new environment.
The metamorphoses that occur at the end of the epilogue with Rudin are striking. Throughout the novel, he is inactive, ranting and reflecting, and then dies on the Parisian barricades with a red banner in his hand. The epilogue significantly changes the existing reader's ideas, it leads to the idea that it was obviously not nature at all, but circumstances that prevented Rudin from expressing himself decisively.
In the literature of the last two centuries, the prologue and epilogue are a monopoly of epic genres, but they can also be found in dramatic works (in Goethe's Faust, Blok's The King in the Square, Brecht's The Good Man from Sezuan), and even in lyrics - and not only in lyrical books and cycles, but also in individual poems.
Poetic forms are canonical, and the innovative poet uses them in his own way in the fight against the inertia of the reader's perception. Having started a conversation in the usual (for the reader-interlocutor) language, he then makes sharp mixtures, violates the rhyming, strophic, plot expectation. In the well-known Tsvetaeva's poem "Longing for the Motherland! For a long time ..." from the very first lines, the same motive is pumped up, the same thought is inspired. And so on until the last, tenth stanza, where a sharp turning point occurs: “And it’s all the same, and everything is one. / But if there is a bush along the way / It rises, especially a mountain ash ...” Such is the ending in which, unspoken, given out only in a barely trembling voice, a refuted homesickness sounds, quite comparable to the epilogue.
There are especially many "epilogue" works in Akhmatova's lyrics.
Epilogue
Epilogue
(Greek epilogos, lit. - afterword), the final part of the work, which briefly reports on the life of the characters some time after the events shown in plot(see "Fathers and Sons" by J.S. Turgenev, "Crime and Punishment" F. M. Dostoevsky, "War and Peace" L.N. Tolstoy). In the epilogues of dramatic works, a final characterization of the meaning of the depicted is often given and gratitude is expressed to the public (“As You Like It”, “Henry V”, “The Tempest” by W. Shakespeare).
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Epilogue
EPILOGUE- the final part, attached to the work of art as an artistic addition and representing a more or less independent whole, often without the designation E. Usually, the epilogue tells about further events or states of what was depicted in the finished work of art, and, moreover, through some a period of time so that there is a break in the presentation. Such, for example, are the epilogues in some of Pushkin's poems, the novels of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy. The epilogue should be a fictional story, and not a simple account, for example, about the later fate of the characters in the novel. Pushkin understood this perfectly when he jokingly answered the demands of some friends to complete his novel “Eugene Onegin”: “You say rightly that it is strange, even impolite, to interrupt the novel without finishing it, giving it to the press; that, be that as it may, he must marry his hero, at least kill him, and, after giving them a friendly bow, send out the labyrinth out of the labyrinth. Such a false understanding of artistic completeness prompted many of the final pages of Turgenev's works, in which, along with such a beautiful epilogue that can serve as a model, as in the novel "The Noble Nest", sometimes there are additions and additions to the previous artistic presentation that have absolutely no artistic significance. Where the artistic imagination of the author reaches a limit beyond which it no longer extends, it is better to stop than to end the poetry with intellectual prose. Right, as an artist, Pushkin, who cut off his novel "Eugene Onegin" and Chekhov, who ended his story "A House with a Mezzanine" with the question: "Where are you?", addressed to the heroine. An epilogue should be distinguished from a non-fiction afterword (see this word).
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epilogue- a, m. épilogue epilogos epi after + logos word. 1. The final part of a literary work. containing usually brief information about the further fate of his heroes. ALS 1. At the end of the book: Epilogue. Sobolevsky Translation. P.S.… … Historical Dictionary of Gallicisms of the Russian Language
- (Greek epilogos, from epi after, and logos word). Afterword or conclusion in dramatic and epic works, informing about the further fate of the characters. Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. ... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
Final chord, finale, end, ending, outcome, completion, finish, denouement, conclusion Dictionary of Russian synonyms. epilogue see end Dictionary of synonyms of the Russian language. Practical guide. M.: Russian language. Z. E. Alexandrova ... Synonym dictionary
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EPILOGUE, epilogue, husband. (Greek epilogos, lit. afterword). 1. The final chapter of a work of art, introducing the further fate of the heroes (lit.). 2. trans. The end, the denouement of something (book). Good epilogue. Dictionary… … Explanatory Dictionary of Ushakov
- (Greek epilogos), in ancient and later drama, the final monologue is an appeal to the viewer with a lesson, a request for indulgence, or with a final explanation of the content. Literature since the end of the 18th century. the final part of the work, in which ... Modern Encyclopedia
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EPILOGUE, a, m. The final part of a literary, musical work. E. novel, opera. E. life (trans.: the events of her last, final years). Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov
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EPILOGUE
- (from the Greek epilogos - afterword) - a part of the text of a work of art that goes beyond the boundaries of the plot: the author's story about what happened to the characters after the denouement (see denouement) of the plot action, about the further fate of the characters. Wed the final
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Epilogue
introduction
introduction
preamble
foreword
initial part
Epilogue
BUT, m.
The final part of the work of art, which briefly reports on the further fate of the characters.
* Epilogue of the novel. *
Epilogue
(gr. epilogos - conclusion) - a picture or part of an act that complements the main action in opera, ballet, cantata-oratorio works and completes it (for example, the epilogue in M. Glinka's opera "Ivan Susanin").
Epilogue
manual, pp manual Kalachinsky (pool R. Khaimkan) in the Zeya district. The name was given when naming nameless watercourses in the course of a predictive assessment for alluvial gold in 1997 from the modern word epilogue - “proverb, concluding phrase, conclusion”.
EPIL O G, a, m. The final part of a literary, musical work. E. novel, opera. E. life (trans.: the events of her last, final years).
| adj. epilogue, oh, oh.
Epilogue
Epilogue
epilo g, epilogue, husband. (Greek epilogos, letters. afterword).
1. The final chapter of a work of art, introducing the further fate of the characters ( lit.).
2. trans. The end, the denouement of something ( books.). Good epilogue.
Epilogue
the traditional request for forgiveness and applause, which is said at the end of the performance by the main character. There is an epilogue in the following plays by Shakespeare: * "A Midsummer Night's Dream", * "As You Like It", * "Henry V", * "Twelfth Night" (song), * "The End is the Crown", * "Troilus and Cressida", *"Pericles", *"The Tempest", *"Henry IV, Part Two" and *"All is True" ("Henry VIII")
Epilogue
(Greek epilogos), in ancient and later drama, the final monologue is an appeal to the viewer with a lesson, a request for indulgence, or with a final explanation of the content; in literature from con. 18th century - the final part of the work, which briefly reports on the fate of the characters after the events depicted in it, and sometimes discusses the moral, philosophical aspects of the depicted.
Epilogue
(from Greek epi - after and logos - word) - the final part of a work of art, which briefly reports on the fate of the characters after the events depicted in it.
RB: Composition and plot
Corr: prologue
Genus: Ending
* "In the epilogue, the writer strives to make especially tangible ... the author's sentence over the depicted" (G.L. Abramovich).
"The epilogue is often found in the dramas of B. Brecht" (V. Diev). *
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epilogue
epilogue, m. (Greek epilogos, lit. afterword).
The final chapter of a work of art, introducing the further fate of the heroes (lit.).
trans. The end, the denouement of something. (book). Good epilogue.
epilogue
A, m. The final part of a literary, musical work. E. novel, opera. E. life (trans.: the events of her last, final years). I) adj. epilgovy, th, th.
epilogue
The final part of a literary work, (usually containing brief information about the further fate of its characters).
The final scene of the opera.
The final address to the audience, explaining the intention of the author or the nature of the production (in ancient Greek drama).
trans. The end, the end of something.
epilogue
EPILOGUE (Greek epilogos) in ancient and later drama, the final monologue is an appeal to the viewer with a lesson, a request for indulgence, or with a final explanation of the content; in literature from con. 18th century - the final part of the work, which briefly reports on the fate of the characters after the events depicted in it, and sometimes discusses the moral, philosophical aspects of the depicted.
Epilogue
(Greek epilogos, literally ≈ afterword),
in drama, an appeal to the viewer at the end of the work with a lesson, a request for indulgence, etc.
In novels, short stories, poems of modern times, an artistic narrative about the fate of characters, usually a few years after the events of the denouement. Less often, the moral, philosophical, and aesthetic aspects of the narrative are discussed in esthetics (L. N. Tolstoy’s War and Peace), and the personality of the author is highlighted (The Fountain of Bakhchisaray by A. S. Pushkin).
Epilogue
Epilogue- the final part, added to the finished work of art and not necessarily associated with it by the inseparable development of the action.
Just as the prologue introduces the characters before the beginning of the action or reports what preceded it, so the epilogue acquaints the reader with the further fate of the characters who interested him in the work. An epilogue differs from an afterword in the narrow sense in that the former can be a reflection, while an epilogue is always a story. Typical epilogues - sometimes without much title - end the novels of Dostoyevsky and Turgenev.
Epilogue (album)
"Epilogue"- the last album of "Agatha Christie", the tenth studio work, which first went on sale at the "Invasion" festival on July 10 in Bolshoy Zavidovo.
Epilogue (disambiguation)
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Prologue and epilogue the books are, in essence, just an Old Testament version of the Chaldean legend.
Epilogue Sickbay Dr. Hobbs tells Franklin that Kaylin is terminally ill, having been diagnosed two years ago by Dr. Kyle.
Is it not uncommon after great historical defeats short-term epilogue with the appearance on the stage of the extreme left wing, which failed or was unable to act in time and is therefore doomed to defeat?
There are no prefaces - here at the beginning epilogue Even thanks to the patronage authorities and the faculty, the two former dangers are not.
Phorkiade on the proscenium straightens up gigantically, descends from the cothurns, takes off his mask and veil and turns out to be Mephistopheles, ready, if necessary, to explain the play in epilogue.
This monologue, which is epilogue throughout the play, Baek says to the audience.
Devil So if you want to know about it, I epilogue I am the amazement of Immeasurable happiness and misfortune, I am the longing for loss.
AT epilogue when it is archaic, as in Euripides, the deity again appears on the scene, bringing the denouement.
If the examples given are sayings, then four kinds of sayings must be recognized, for a saying can be with epilogue and without it.
For this novel in September 1980, Cortazar wrote a peculiar epilogue-- cm.
IDEALS EPILOGUE Key Qualities Enthusiasm and Perseverance Devotion to Purpose Resilience to Failure and Monotony Resilience to Success Courage Health and Energy ORIGINALITY Independence of Thought Open-mindedness Imagination Intuition Genius INTELLIGENCE Logic Memory and Experience Concentration Abstraction ETHICS Honesty to Oneself CONTACT WITH NATURE Observation.
But after that, in epilogue, he very naively announces that a complete revolution has taken place in him.
Subsequently, when the story is separated from moralizing and, so to speak, secularized, taken away from the cult and received areligious attitudes, its didactic part continues to trail behind it according to tradition, it remains only in epilogue as the completion of the story, as a clot of it, as an instructive generalization in a small poetic form - while the story is complex rhythmic or ordinary prose.
Epilogue turned out to be no better than the play itself, for, as soon as the devil breathed his last, the lone gentleman immediately demanded both puppeteers upstairs, treated them to liquor from his supply and started long conversations with them, the content of which remained an incomprehensible riddle to everyone.
This gives the image of Pandarus a huge impact force, and his bitter, vile epilogue- a measure of the acrimoniousness of the play.
