FLOWERS OF LOVE, OR REFLECTIONS ABOUT E. SHMITT’S NOVEL"MONSIEUR IBRAHIM AND FLOWERS OF THE KORAN"
The article analyzes the story by the famous French writer Erich-Emanuel Schmitt “Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran”. The plot of the story could have been laid out in a few lines: the fate of the Jewish boy, who was abandoned by his mother from his childhood, who did not have any relationship with his own father, and who found a “shelter” at Monsieur Ibrahim’s, a Muslim grocer from Blue Street. The author of the article set the goal of examining the relationship of the Jewish boy with his father and mother and a completely distant Muslim grocer, Ibrahim, in order to reveal love, intimacy, loyalty, tolerance and patronage. Through a detailed analysis of the character system, an attempt was made to establish the psychological motives of the discord of the boy Momo with his parents and his rapprochement with Monsieur Ibrahim. But the lack of understanding of others, loneliness, a sense of uselessness and guilt for theft in Monsieur Ibrahim’s shop touch his heart and soul. It is the last feeling that prompts him to try the desire in practice. Despair sets the boy on a desperate course - theft, motivated by the test of himself in manhood. It should be borne in mind that these feelings occur in the soul of an unformed teenager. The author comes to the conclusion that the lessons of Monsieur Ibrahim given to the adopted Moses bore noble fruits. They were expressed not only in the fact that after Monsieur Ibrahim departed for another world, Moses inherited his money and a grocery store, but that he had already become enlightened, married, having the children, he established connections with his mother and her husband. And only then he did realize what it was a joy for his mother to hear from his children a tender “grandmother”, similar to the feeling of happiness that he felt when he told “dad” to Monsieur Ibrahim. On the one hand, this knowledge is on the level of instant sensations, on the other - on the level of the events.