In the disclosure of all the processes and vicissitudes taking place in the soul of Julien Sorel, with special expressiveness was the psychology of Stendhal, who achieved unusual subtlety and insight. And it is psychology that is the fundamental feature of the poetics of the novel “Red and Black”. Novel Stendhal’s “Red and Black” is … Read more
Homeland. The fatherland. The land is native. Fatherland. Motherland. Motherland. Mother earth. Native land. All these intimate words by no means exhaust the full range of feelings that we put into this sacred for each person concept. It is difficult to name a writer or a poet who would not dedicate the most sincere, heart-rending … Read more
The tradition of the Olympic Games comes from ancient Greece. We know that the first Olympics were held in the city of Olympia more than 2700 years ago. For five days in the country all wars stopped and sports were held. It was a wonderful sports festival of wrestling, racing, discus throwing and other sports. … Read more
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was the most outstanding representative of the Enlightenment in Germany at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. About himself, he wrote: “I have a tremendous advantage due to the fact that I was born in an era when the greatest world events took place.” His great experience as a great … Read more
Poems and songs of the Scottish poet R. Burns are very popular in his homeland. This popularity is explained by the fact that Burns’s poetry is closely connected with the folk song of Scotland. Burns is the son of a Scottish farmer, the songs of his ancestors are familiar to him from the cradle. It … Read more
The Italian theme occupies a significant place in the creative heritage of Stendhal. The world of passions and strong characters is explored by the writer in the novel “Vanina Vanini”, and in the “Italian chronicles”. The theme is most deeply and fully revealed in Stendhal’s last completed novel, The Parma Cloister. In it, the theory … Read more
The story “The Old Man and the Sea” is one of the last completed works of the legend of the American literature of Ernest Hemingway, an original result of the author’s creative search. Literary critics define the genre of this work as a story-parable, that is, a work that tells about the fate and certain … Read more
“Jules Verne was my father Wells was a wise uncle Edgar Allan Poe was my cousin, he was like a bat forever dwelling in our dark attic… Well, what else could I become, if not a science fiction writer in a family? ” – so joked Ray Bradbury, one of the most outstanding science fiction … Read more
What is symbolism? The main features of symbolism. adherence to the idealistic philosophy of Plato, Schopenhauer’s ideas, according to which the whole world is only a shadow, a symbol of the world of ideas, which can not be comprehended by reason, but by intuition; 2) disappointment in the real world and loss of interest in … Read more
Homer’s poem “Odyssey” is an exciting legend about the amazing adventures of the king of Ithaca. Reading it, we find ourselves in the magical world of giants and monsters, where Odysseus wandered. It was a difficult journey to the homeland of the hero, whom the sea had been born for ten years. Once he approached … Read more