About this audiobook
Ivan Goncharov's "Breakthrough" is a monumental novel-epopey, which is the result of the writer's thirty-year work and the conclusion of his famous trilogy about the fate of the Russian intelligence. This is a deep, passionate and surprisingly picturesque drama about the change of epochs, the tragic mistakes of youth and the search for spiritual orientations on the background of the majestic Volga nature. The main character - Boris Rajsky, the St. Petersburg esthetic, diletant and eternal seeker of "clean beauty", - a statute from the capital shame, comes to the picturesque family property on Volga. There all is carried out by his two-year-old grandmother, powerful but wise Tatiana Markovna Berezhkov. The true revelation for Rajsky becomes two of his two-year-old sisters: the subtle Marfinka and the mysterious, proud Faith. Trying to uncover the secret of Faith, Boris finds himself trapped into the waters of dangerous passions. The girl is attracted to a charismatic "negilist" by Mark Volochov - a rebellion who denies the former values, morality and faith. On the edge of the old, scary breakthrough in the garden, the main battle is developing: the collision of the traditional statute and a new, destructive freedom. The breakthrough here is not just an element of the landscape, but a powerful metaphor of the rock trait, the fall behind which is threatened by the death of the old world and the moral collapse of man. The book is fascinated by the summary of images, the thinest analysis of female psychology and the eternal dispute on what life should be built on – on the denial of the past or on the untouchable laws of love and duty. ** About what the book in three words:** Passion, Nigalism, Volga. To the lovers of large-scale classical novels with a strong psychological line, to the lovers of the perfect Russian slogan and to all who want to understand what internal storms Russia lived in the eve of great historical shocks.
