Category: Essays on literatuire

Vasily Kirillovich Nechitailo is a Soviet painter whose paintings are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, the Ulyanovsk Regional Museum. One of the most moving and light of his paintings is “Motherhood”. And not in vain, because it is the mother who loves her child, at all times, caused people…

In choosing a profession, I probably will focus on accounting work. At us this family – after all the bookkeeper in the big firm of wholesale trade my native Aunt Liza works. She’s been taking account for ten years. The name “accountant” of German origin and literally means “book holder”. A person of this profession…

It is difficult not to agree with this finished thought of the great Frenchman Balzac, but in each craft there are its basics, without the comprehension of which something more serious will simply not open. After reading Stendhal’s novel “The Red and the Black,” I had the impression that Julien Sorel was trying to master…

-With the Friars approaching you, Mr. Scrooge! -Nonsense! Nonsense! – Do not you want to have fun? -Why did it happen? -That’s Christmas! Merry Christmas-tree! -And you have many reasons for fun? Fail with your Saints! A lot of good from them! Let them disappear altogether! .. Everyone is waiting for joyful days of Christmas…

Honore de Balzac is a great French writer-realist. His merit in the development of world literature lies primarily in the fact that he raised the genre of the novel to the heights of artistic perfection and social significance. Stendhal was right to call Balzac “the king of novelists.” Looking closely at the surrounding reality, relying…

The war… A terrible word, at the mention of which bloody pictures arise: the wounded, the soldiers killed in action, the children and old men shot by the fascists, the people exhausted in concentration camps, the destroyed villages and villages, the destroyed cities… More than sixty years have passed since that time. But time could…

The readers of our time have many questions when he reads the “Doll House” by G. Ibsen. Time is different, people have changed, values ​​have depreciated, on the one hand, on the other – it became more difficult to recognize their intelligence. Nora’s image evokes a desire to sympathize with this woman, to marvel at…

Franz Kafka – the bearer of a very peculiar, deformed vision of the world, which is reflected in the mind of the writer, as in a crooked mirror. Everything in this world is distorted, devoid of meaning. Therefore, reading his works, you refuse from their literal understanding, and you are tuned to experiences before penetrating…

Russian satire XVII century. has drawn into its sphere and from time immemorial, since the XII century. popular in our genre of “intelligent alphabet” – works in which individual phrases are arranged in alphabetical order. Until the XVI century. inclusive “sensible alphabets” consisted mainly of church-dogmatic, edifying or church-historical materials. Later they are replenished with…

In the 20-ies. Stendhal creates several works that testify to the rapid development of the writer’s realistic talent. Among them, the novel “Vanina Vanini”, written in 1829, occupies a special place. The hero of this novel was the conspirator-carbonar, one of those whom the writer has often met during his stay in Italy. This is…