Бремя страстей человеческих

Vo mnogom avtobiografichnyĭ roman "Bremi͡a strasteĭ chelovecheskikh" (1915) voshel v spisok 100 luchshikh angloi͡azychnykh proizvedeniĭ XX veka, byl pereveden edva li ne na vse i͡azyki mira i trizhdy ėkranizirovan. Prochitav ego, Teodor Draĭzer nazval Moėma "velikim khudozhnikom", a samu knigu - "tvoreniem genii͡a"."Bremi͡a strasteĭ chelovecheskikh" mozhno nazvatʹ "romanom vospitanii͡a", gde avtor proslezhivaet zhiznʹ glavnogo geroi͡a Filipa Kėri ot detstva k otrochestvu, ot i͡unosti k zrelosti. Na ego doli͡u vypadaet nemalo ispytaniĭ: ranni͡ai͡a smertʹ roditeleĭ, otchai͡annye poiski svoego prizvanii͡a, obrechennye otnoshenii͡a s legkomyslennoĭ zhenshchinoĭ. Preterpev nemalo razocharovaniĭ, meni͡ai͡a svoi vzgli͡ady ot podchinenii͡a sobstvennym strasti͡am do samootrechenii͡a, Filip pytaetsi͡a nitʹ za nitʹi͡u splesti uzor sobstvennoĭ zhizni…

In many ways, the autobiographical novel "The Burden of Human Passions" (1915) was included in the list of the 100 best English-language works of the 20th century, was translated into almost all languages of the world and filmed three times. After reading it, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham a "great artist" and the book itself a "work of genius.""The burden of human passions" can be called a "novel of upbringing", where the author traces the life of the main character Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to adulthood. He has a lot of trials: the early death of his parents, the desperate search for his vocation, a doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having suffered many disappointments, changing his views from submission to his own passions to self-denial, Philip tries to weave the pattern of his own life thread by thread…