Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

Anatoly Kuragin lived in Moscow; his father had sent him from Petersburg, where he spent more than twenty thousand dollars a year, and the creditors demanded the same amount from his father. The father told his son that he had paid half of his debts for him for the last time only in the hope that he would go to Moscow to be the aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief, a position his father had won for him, and that he would do his best to become a good student there. marriage.He promised to point him to Princess Marya and Julie Karagina as objects of interest. After Anatoly agreed, he set off for Moscow and stayed at Pierre's house.Pierre was at first reluctant to receive Anatole, but then he became acquainted with him, and sometimes they went drinking together.Pierre gave him the money in the name of a loan.

Shinshin aptly spoke of Anatole's case, saying that when he came to Moscow, he turned the Moscow ladies into a swoon, not least because he despised them, apparently preferring gypsy girls to fellow French actresses. The antagonism of the bourgeoisie, pointing out that "the condition of the working class is everything in the present, and it is said that she has a close relationship with Mademoiselle Georges, the head of the French actress. Danilov and other optimists in Moscow hosted a banquet, and he never missed a single one. He drank heavily through the night, and he was a frequent presence at parties and balls of high society. They talked of his affairs with the ladies of Moscow, and at balls he courted a few women. But he did not To approach young girls, especially rich unmarried girls who are mostly ugly, and Anatole was married two years ago, and no one but his closest friends knew about it. Two years ago While his regiment was stationed in Poland, a poor Polish district forced Anatole to marry his daughter.

Anatole sent his father-in-law a sum of money as a condition, and soon after, he abandoned his wife and claimed the right to be a bachelor. Anatole had always been content with his position, with himself and with others.His whole being was instinctively convinced that this was the only way he could live, that he had never done anything wrong in his life.He is not good at considering the full extent of how his actions will affect other people, or the consequences of this or that action.He firmly believed that God created the duck so that it had to live in water all the time, and that God created him, so he should earn thirty thousand rubles a year, and should always occupy the highest position in society.He was convinced of it, and others believed it when they observed him, and they would not deny him the highest position in society, nor would they refuse him a loan from whomever he met on the road. , he obviously didn't want to return his.

He's not a gambler, at least he never wants to win.He is not vain.No matter who thought of him, he didn't care, and he was not at fault in coveting fame.So he angered his father Taixu several times in the field of ancient Chinese philosophy. ① Refers to the body of vitality.Zhang Zai of the Northern Song Dynasty "Zheng, because he ruined his own future, he laughed at all the glorious status.He is not stingy, and he will not refuse anyone who asks him.There is only one thing he likes, and that is to have fun and pursue women. According to his concept, there is nothing noble about these hobbies, but he will not consider what consequences the blindly satisfying his lust will cause to others, so he Considering himself a man above reproach, he contemptuously despises the low and the bad, and takes pride in his dignity.

These drunkards, these repentant delinquent men, like the repentant delinquent woman, have an underlying sense of innocence based on the hope of forgiveness. "She gets all forgiveness because she loves so much, and he gets all forgiveness because he plays so much." That year, after his exile and adventures in Persia, Dolokhov reappeared in Moscow. He still lived a life of gambling and drinking, and was very close to an old Petersburg colleague, Kuragin. use him for his own purposes. Dolokhov was clever and fierce, and Anatole genuinely liked him.Dolokhov needed Anatoly Kuragin's fame, status, and connections in order to lure wealthy young people into his gambling gang, use him, play with him, politics became hegemonic, and history tended to degenerate.There are also suggestions in natural science, but he is not allowed to realize this, except that he deliberately resorts to Anatoly. For Dolokhov, controlling the will of others is itself a kind of enjoyment, habit and need.

Natasha Kuragin leaves a strong impression.Coming home from the opera for supper, he appraised her in the presence of Dolokhov with professional style on the merits of her arms, shoulders, legs, and hair, and said that he had decided to court her.Anatole could not consider, nor could he know the consequences of this courtship, any more than he was always aware of the consequences of his every action. "She's beautiful, brother, but she wasn't given to us," Dolokhov told him. "I'm going to tell my sister to invite her to lunch," said Anatole, "will you?"

"You'd better wait until she leaves the cabinet..." "You know," said Anatole, "j'adore les petites filles, she's squirming right away." "You were once tricked by petitefille," said Dolokhov, who knew of Anatole's marriage. "Be careful!" -------- ①French: I like little girls very much. ②French, little girl. "Oh, never again! Really?" said Anatole, laughing kindly.