Who is Nizami Ganjavi? A simple embroiderer from Ganja, for that is how his plain name, which stands under the finest poems that Iran has ever heard, is translated. The exuberant and significant Abu Muhammad Ilias ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Muayyad, he left for the city books and family chronicles to enter the world literature … Read more
Why did you, Spain, look to the sky, When Garcia Lorca was led to be shot? N. Aseev August 19, 1936, eight kilometers from Granada, was shot by the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. The boundaries of his life – as short as Pushkin’s – were marked by the dates of national catastrophes: 1898-1936. … Read more
The ancestors of the world-famous American writer of German descent Kurt Vonnegut arrived in America long before the appearance of the Statue of Liberty. Both grandfather and father Vonnegut were born in Indiana, but always felt “like Germans in America.” The future writer was born in the city of Indianapolis, he received his education at … Read more
Maxim Gorky is the literary name of the famous writer Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1868. In origin Gorky by no means belonged to those scum of society, the singer of which he appeared in literature. The apologist of the Bosnia came out of a completely bourgeois environment. His father, … Read more
“To be or not to be?” – a question that has always stood in front of people: to resist evil or to reconcile with it? try to change the world in which injustice triumphs, or live peacefully in it? But for the first time it was so clearly and definitely formulated by the great Shakespeare … Read more
I do not think that the arrival of totalitarianism in Europe was delayed by two novels – “1984” Orwell and “Blinding Darkness” Koestler… but they played a huge role in this. J. Wayne In 1984, the world celebrated a strange anniversary – the year that marked the time of action in George Orwell’s book “1984”. … Read more
To be kind, I need me Ruthlessness. V. Shakespeare Probably, there are no people who perceive Good and Evil as something definite once and for all. In the same way, as there is no color in the living nature without halftones, without shades. Of course, everyone has his own idea of the ideal, everyone goes … Read more
The blind man, who proudly rushes with dreams, Who seeks us as equals behind the clouds! Become firmly here – and around you watch everything: For business and this world is not it. I. V. Goethe Goethe wrote the philosophical drama Faust almost all his life: the first sketches date back to 1773, and the … Read more
The value of punctuation marks always performs the task of facilitating reading. In the ancient manuscripts we see complex screensavers and initial letters, but the words are written with minimal spaces, without any capitalization in the sentences and proper names, without punctuation. It’s nice to watch, but not very readable, although the letters are very … Read more
The fidelity of the artistic detail is a characteristic feature of Balzac’s realism. Creating the image of Gobsek, the writer uses a number of definitions that allow to emphasize and show the reader a psychologically complex character. Due to the grotesque, Balzac achieves a special expressiveness of the image, in which the Balzac synthesis of … Read more