Барсетширские хроники. Смотритель. Барчестерские башни

Ėntoni Trollop - britanskiĭ klassik, sovremennai͡a populi͡arnostʹ kotorogo v angloi͡azychnom mire mozhet sravnitʹsi͡a razve chto so slavoĭ Dzheĭn Ostin ("Trollop ubivaet meni͡a svoim masterstvom", - pisal v svoem dnevnike Lev Tolstoĭ), a "Barsetshirskie khroniki" zasluzhenno schitai͡utsi͡a edva li ne glavnym ego dostizheniem. (V 1982 godu na Bi-bi-si vyshel serial "Barchesterskie khroniki", gde snimalisʹ Alan Rikman i Donalʹd Plezens. ) Dannai͡a kniga vkli͡uchaet pervye dve "khroniki" - "Smotritelʹ" i "Barchesterskie bashni", - kotorye chasto sravnivai͡ut s "Sobori͡anami" Leskova. V tikhom provint͡sialʹnom gorodke razygryvai͡utsi͡a neshutochnye strasti, i v barchesterskikh sobori͡anakh - smotritele i arkhidʹi͡akone, episkope i missis Praudi - chitatelʹ neozhidanno uznaet sebi͡a, svoikh rodnykh i kolleg, a v t͡serkovnykh dri͡azgakh viktorianskoĭ Anglii, v konflikte mezhdu lichnoĭ sovestʹi͡u i tradit͡sionnymi privilegii͡ami - zhivotrepeshchushchie problemy sovremennosti.

Anthony Trollope is a British classic whose modern popularity in the English—speaking world can only be compared with the fame of Jane Austen ("Trollope kills me with his skill," Leo Tolstoy wrote in his diary), and the Barsetshire Chronicles are deservedly considered almost his main achievement. (In 1982, the BBC aired The Barchester Chronicles, starring Alan Rickman and Donald Pleasence.) This book includes the first two chronicles, The Caretaker and The Barchester Towers, which are often compared to Leskov's Soborians. Serious passions are playing out in a quiet provincial town, and in the Barchester cathedrals — the caretaker and the archdeacon, the bishop and Mrs. Proudie — the reader suddenly recognizes himself, his relatives and colleagues, and in the ecclesiastical squabbles of Victorian England, in the conflict between personal conscience and traditional privileges — the burning problems of our time.