Qhen in the novel there are a lot of heroes on the one hand, it reveals various worlds, fragments, thoughts of literary heroes. But on the other hand, if they appear sporadically, then you can forget about them too. Then why write about them?
The author may make a mistake ... by introducing many minor characters into the novel ... but how then to forget them all?
Therefore, they can probably appear episadically in the novel and then disappear again.
The description of the room ... it is a mistake of many authors to go into a detailed description so that they will never return to it again! Perhaps this is done for the number of words in the text? But what's the point? If no one will read it?
I already had experience writing storybooks ... there were just a lot of secondary and even third-rate heroes. But from chapter to chapter they slowly disappeared.
For example, the same merchant Mergen! Initially, his image was associated with a spy who, in the image of a merchant, traveled around the countries and collected information about them. Then he seemed to run away, and he was sent on a mission to the long push journey of his life. During this time, he managed to create his trading empire, to smog in India and Pakistan. Create a spy network, so to speak, to collect information and technology. The text was a lot of minor literary characters, which slowly just disappeared from the story. There were too many of them to remember their characteristics, their thoughts, their world, their reasonings ...
Yes, Mergen himself, during the story, changed his mind about work ... he left her ... but at the end of the story, he still left his two families, two or three wives in India and Pakistan, and returned to his homeland ... that Interestingly, he was buried in the tunic of the colonel and with orders ... it means that all the same he did not quit his job ...
The literary image of the hero is collective ... he emerged after reading Kipling's KIM novel ... this is of course, really, a cool novel, he best describes the relationship between colonies and empires. Shows how it was going - a big game, a game of intelligence of great empires. Of course, the small principalities, kingdoms, kingdoms, were between the hammer and the anvil, they did not have a chance to stay away from this game. They were just like pawns or, at best, like a field of play ...
Also, the image of a literary hero was influenced by the stories of Roman Kim ...
As well as the work of Naftula Aronovich Halfin, he curious information about the penetration into Central Asia under the guise of various artists, photographers, scientists, cyclists and other creative professions - spies from Germany, Italy, Turkey, Great Britain from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th centuries.
In addition, the fate of the Pole, Jan Vitkevich, some historians have noticed that he was a double agent and someone that he turned over to the side of the Briatans ... it began the 19th century.
Anyway, against the backdrop of magnificent landscapes and fascinating Silk Road trading stories, the story of the Great Game developed as well ... Poor Conolly and Sttogart, I already wrote about them ... I could not continue the topic until I could. It is necessary to collect information, and from the time of 1842 to 1929 such a bedolog was apparently quite a lot ... All problems between the great empires were settled in 1907 ... and then a new wave began after the First World War ... but that's another story .
So there is a lot of topics for historical novels ... only it is difficult to transform all this into a literary form.
Many minor literary heroes of course complicate the reading of the text ...
In the manual to the author they say to have one literary hero and several minor ones.
But how then to show the big oriental families? Too many questions.
Well, for now, just writing ...