Contents Introduction

A typical image represents the highest level of the characteristic image. Typical - this is the most likely, so to speak, exemplary for a certain era. The image of typical images was one of the main goals, as well as the achievements of realistic literature of the XIX century. Suffice it to recall the father of Gorio and Gobsek O. Balzac, Anna Karenina and Platon Karataev L. Tolstoy, Madame Bovary G. Flaubert, etc. Sometimes the artistic image can capture both the socio-historical signs of the era, as well as the universal character traits of this or that hero (the so-called eternal images) - Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet, Oblomov, Tartuffe ...