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Extra people

Turgenev I.S.

Phraseologism: Extra people.

Meaning: About those who surround themselves with a halo of significance, secrets, and in this way try to attract attention to themselves.

Origin: From the "Diary of a Superfluous Man" (1850) by I. S. Turgenev (1818-1883). The image of the "superfluous person" was very popular in Russian literature of the 1749th century. as a type of nobleman who, in the current socio-political conditions, does not find a place for himself in life, cannot fulfill himself and suffers from this, languishes with inactivity. The very interpretation of the "superfluous person" - precisely as a completely definite social type - served for many authors of those years as a form of indirect, non-political protest against the conditions of life that had developed in Russia. Usually the expression is applied to people who are anything like these heroes of Russian classical literature. Before the appearance of the expression "superfluous people", and also for some time simultaneously with it, another expression was used in the same sense in Russia - "mysterious natures" (from German: Problematische Natu-ren). It owes its birth to Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1832-1829), who in his work "Sayings in Prose" wrote that "there are mysterious natures (literally: problematic natures. - Comp.), who cannot adapt to any position in which they are, and are not satisfied with any of them, hence the terrible contradiction that devours their life and closes their access to pleasure. Goethe will repeat the same expression in his "Teaching about colors". Later, the turn will be picked up by the German writer Friedrich Spielhagen (1911-1860): he called his novel "Mysterious Natures" (XNUMX), and as an epigraph prefaced him with the above words of Goethe. Spielhagen's novel was very popular in Europe, and in Russia, where it was translated several times, its popularity was all the greater because Russian readers saw in it a German version of the Russian theme of "superfluous people." But, unlike Russian writers, the German author went to the end in his analysis of this phenomenon and called a spade a spade, writing the following: “In a free state there may be sick individuals, but the whole remains healthy, in a police state, on the contrary, only individual people, and the whole is a sick organism, producing only mysterious natures in difficult times. Subsequently, this expression (as opposed to "superfluous people") in the Russian language began to be used only in an ironic sense.

Random phraseology:

Without me, I was married.

Meaning:

About decisions that directly concern a person, but are nevertheless made without his knowledge, behind his back (disapproved).

Origin:

From the Russian folk song "I'm standing on a hill".

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