Fat is ... The meaning of the word "veil"

A man who plays the audience and at the same time unjustifiably extols himself, this is the meaning of the word "fath" in its classical sense. Encyclopaedic dictionaries somewhat broaden the semantic boundaries of the word, drawing parallels with the stage role of pompous and limited, and in fact, just stupid heroes. Playing the roles of such a plan is devoted to whole plays, but in life the Fatovskaya manner of behavior looks no less ridiculous and ridiculous.

The language of classics

Often the word "fat" or "faktovstvo" is found in prose writers Goncharov, Turgenev, Nekrasov. Druzhinin sharply and not without irony condemned the fraud, marveling at how an adult and intelligent man can put a solid piece of his life on the altar of hoaxing his own meaning.

Neither Lermontov nor Pushkin ever mentioned this word in his work, but did not each of them reflect sufficiently the qualitative essence of such untalented power of a well- suspended language and the ability to play whole solo performances about himself? Fat is first and foremost a person unsatisfied with his own position in the world, that's what is read between the lines in a ridiculous and shameful manner, derived by the most famous classics of all time.

Well-told about this phenomenon, not subject to time, the newspaper "Severny Vestnik" of the 1805 edition. Without quoting the entire article, let us quote the author's opinion on the question "what is this fathom?", Sounding in those days as an appeal to the fashionable French language (fat - "stupid" in French). An unintelligible philologist explained to the reader that a person inclined to fraudulence could create for himself a spectatorial mass only from the public, much more stupid than himself, at the same time people at least a half cleverly avoid contact with such an object. This person is not clever enough to allow herself to be sincere even in private, but she can not be called stupid either, because creating an image, even if lying, is the same work of the mind.

Fancy as a genre

Nobody has described until now a veil more characteristic than Nikolai Gogol in his famous "Inspector". Never once in the whole play did the prose writer use the word "fat". This is all the more valuable, since the spectator himself was able to discover in the main character the whole spectrum of the abominable artificiality inherent in public criticism.

But did the people who surrounded this mystifier and the lomak prove to be any smarter? This is an important lesson, presented by a brilliant master throughout numerous episodes and changing scenery - fancyism is repugnant in and of itself, and those on the go are simply ridiculous, ridiculous to absurdity.

From the life of the great composer

From the words of PI Tchaikovsky's brother, there was some strangeness in the character of the composer, who, without belittling the creator, found in him a man who was not completely satisfied with himself. It is a question of quite vague evidence that the Tchaikovsky family belongs to the ancient nobility.

That mocking fervor and even the public enrollment of his family to the plebeian estate bordered on Peter Ilyich with some mania of dandy negation, when a person would certainly want to be constantly persuaded of the opposite. It was impossible to call this behavior of the composer anything other than a peculiar flattery, in which his brother confessed his letters frankly. Hence we see that the veil is not only an open, but also a disguised form of exaltation, which is easier to detect, the more violently a person denies his actual position.