Pered voskhodom solntsa - Zoshchenko Mikhail

Is it possible to change my own essence, my own self? Is it possible for a person crushed by grief and melancholy, or naturally prone to melancholy, to consciously cultivate in himself what is now commonly called the fashionable phrase "positive thinking"? From his first literary steps, he addressed this problem, both from his own personal experience and based on the teachings of Freud and Pavlov, and the result was a wonderful book, "Before the Sunrise," combining artistic, memoir and scientific . Time and again, it goes through and analyzes the sad memories of the past - childhood sorrows and fears, unrequited youthful love, the tragic death of a friend, the horrors of war, years of poverty and misunderstanding - and again and again tries to leave the past in the past and to force yourself to become another person - bright and new. But what was the result of his efforts?