«Submission finished!" - We say with irony, if completed some unseemly, questionable business.More often, in this case we use the phrase that has long since become a winged "Finito la comedy!" What is its origin, what connotations it enters into a used and how often - and talk about it.
real sound
a blueprint, that is a copy, written in Russian letters, without translation meaning of the phrase finita la commedia, which are attributed to the Italian language - "compactly la comedy".Translation sounds so - "the comedy is over."However, according to the grammatical rules of the Italian language, correct to say: La commedia e finita.That is exactly what it sounds the phrase "compactly la comedy" in Italian.
End of intrigue!
Since this expression was stable in the Russian language, linguists refer it to the category of phraseology.The value assigned to the data phraseology, semantically related to another stable expression, "play-act" - which means pretense, an attempt to mislead.If someone did not honor, covered with good slogans evil deeds, and this was the end, it is appropriate to say: "Finito la comedy!" - Which means "the game is over, now everything will fall into place, and the truth will".
Put point
Have this phraseologism and other lexical tone.For example, someone involved in the events in which he was cast in the role, is reprehensible.Or is he involved in reprehensible situation as her party and the victim.Then at the end of these events, this person may exclaim: "Finito la comedy!" - Which means "Enough, point, basta!" The last word, by the way, too, came to us from Italian, to be exact - from its predecessor, the Latin language.Basta The word means "enough is enough".
When the phrase was coined
is believed that the famous saying "Finito la comedy!" Came into use after it appeared opera "Pagliacci" (author - Ruggero Leoncavallo).However, chronologically, this thesis is not confirmed: the fact that the Russian reader saw this phrase in the novel by Mikhail Lermontov "Hero of Our Time."Idiom sounded from the lips of Pechorin, after he shot and killed his friend in a duel Grushnitsky.The novel was written no later than 1840, and the premiere of the opera "Pagliacci" took almost half a century later, in 1892.
«Pagliacci»
unconventional opera begins: during the musical prologue before even closed the scenes on the stage clown suddenly appears and warns viewers that the opera is inspired by life itself, and its theme - the genuine feelings and passions.Then, the curtain opens and begins the presentation.The plot is based on the fact that in real life and in the theatrical game wandering troupe of actors are intertwined love, jealousy and death.The clown Tonio is in love with Nedda comedian, actor and wife Canio.She rejects the advances of a clown, to give preference to the young peasant Silvio.Stung by Tonio tells her husband about it the wrong woman, and he is furious rushes to the traitor with a knife.But the time of submission, and we have to go on stage."It's time to start, time to put on a suit!" - One of the most famous arias in the opera world.
In the suit of Columbine Nedda through the story played out for the peasants comedy admits to her love Harlequin, whispering the same words that Canio recently heard from the van, where Nedda with Silvio agreed on assignation.Canio in Pagliacci role, beside himself with passion and jealousy, starts Columbine-Nedd demanding open name of the beloved, she tries to laugh it off and play comedy on concealing the scope of its horror.But Canio is not a performance, but life.He does not let his wife from the stage in a fit of rage and stabs her with a knife.Dying, Nedda calls a loved one, he jumps from a spectator benches Clown and kills him.When shaken Canio drops from the hands of a knife, the clown turns to the audience with the words: "The comedy is over."
I wanted to tell Pechorin?
temper of this character, whose name contains a reference to another characteristic of his era, and is also an extraordinary hero - Onegin (novel Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin"), characterized by individualism and great spiritual potential.Sharp mind, a rich inner world and noble impulses inherent in Pechorin did not find the response and the application, but because "sour", poisoned by the bitterness of the human soul.Grushnitsky shooting, image is created as an antithesis figure Pechorin, the protagonist of a challenge of his life.It is remarkable that a character says the replica is not in French, as was the custom among the nobility in that era.This suggests that the words Pechorin put sincere feelings - irony and pain.By the way, the phrase "compactly la comedy" in French sounds: compacte la comédie.
Location hero Lermontov took these words
Researchers believe that Pechorin parodied the words of the Roman Emperor Augustus, which he said on his deathbed: Not if they find that it is perfectly played the comedy of life?The governor took the quote from the Italian commedia dell'arte (commedia dell arte).
Commedia dell'arte - a folk theater showing performances in crowded areas of the city.The specificity of his was the presence of the same masks, wearing that, the actors were transformed into regular characters - Harlequin, Pantaloon, Columbine, Tartaglia, and others. Another important feature of the theater del arte was improvisation: the scenes were played out on a given notional plot scheme which artists performspur of the moment.
Lermontov wrote that, according to legend, the great French Renaissance writer François Rabelais said before his death almost the same words as in August, to emphasize that all of life was the theater, "the comedy is played down the curtain."Pechorin as an educated and well-read, of course, could know about these historical episodes.
formula for the genre
Another explanation of why the hero of Lermontov's works could say the phrase "Finito la comedy!" Is a literary assumption that the novel is based on the type of dramatic action.This is especially true story "Princess Mary", which sounded, and these words.There Pechorin, wrote in his diary the most secret and subtle observations and spiritual movements appears as a creator and performer of his own performance.Thus, the word "Finito la comedy!" - Is a leitmotif that determines the meaning and story-term story.
epitaph
At a meeting with Pechorin on the waters Grushnitski expressed to him in French credo - not to despise the people he hates them, otherwise life would be disgusting farce.Fars - a medieval areal comedy, rude, and not complicated by a large sense.So Grushnitski expressed the desire to exceed the impatient people, and acute fear of contempt.Pechorin recognize his self-centeredness and posturing.And that he was the man who did not fit into the model of relations with the world, developed at Grushnitsky, and stood in his way.Because he also shouted, standing on the edge of a cliff that the two of them there is no place on earth, and now said he himself despises and hates Pechorin.Shot Pechorin put an end to this farce, the play failed life character, descended from arrogance to the realization of his nothingness "Finito la comedy!" No doubt this statement, and he applied to himself.But we can not say that the genre of the play, which is played out in the life of Pechorin - is a farce.Therefore, it makes sense to say the phrase goes deep to the value of epitaphs "on the grave" of all distorted and false way of life.
To taste Italian words
Meet the phrase "Finito la comedy!", The value of which fits into the semantic framework of the above, it is possible in many literary works.Her doctor says ASTROFF the day of departure of Professor Serebryakov and his wife, ironically emphasizing the absurdity of hobbies professorial wife Elena Andreevna (play by Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya").A decade earlier Chekhov used this phrase in the play "Fatherless."
This expression is the title detective Irina Melnikova on the disclosure of the terrible and mysterious crimes.It sounds in the epilogue of the novel Albert Likhanova "Broken Doll" as a desperate cry of degradation and devastation of human souls.Paustovsky uses this idiom in the documentary novel "The Book of Life.Early years. "Mamin-Siberian writer like this expression, we find in his novels "bread", "Features of life Pepke", "Privalov millions".There she works Pisemsky, Leskov, Ogarev, Bulgakov.
especially as this idiom came to taste journalism.It was used by the writers of the past (F. Bulgarin, Shestov, and others.) Gladly decorate their articles and headlines modern journalists.
