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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
-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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
How many of them fell into this abyss, Deployed in the distance! There will come a day when I will disappear From the surface of the earth. M. Tsvetaeva Jack London’s novel “Martin Eden” is largely autobiographical, it is a kind of confession of the writer and an attempt to predict his future through the … Read more
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra conceived a novel about Don Quixote as a parody of the knightly novels that overrun medieval Spain. But the parodies, according to critics, did not work. There was a novel that did not resemble any of those that existed at that time – a novel about a naive, noble, half-twisted man … Read more
Art. It fascinates us with the power of beauty: the beauty of sounds, the beauty of the senses, the beauty of what they saw. And if someone has already enchanted a person – then this is forever. This is such a force – the power of art. Someone was fascinated by a mysterious, tender, quivering … Read more
I understood very well that I had Such tests, of which they are not They can have no idea. C. Dickens The novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield” by genre is close to the so-called “novel of education”, which usually tells about the life of the hero from infancy to maturity. Before us is … Read more
Berlin. Treptow Park. Monument to the Russian Soldier To some friends, I already said that there is no “Victory Day” holiday in Germany. From history you know that on May 8, a capitulation was signed And this is not good for any loser country. And yet, Germany has apologized to all countries for this terrible … Read more
Communication is communication between people, reflecting the level of their information in any area, which serves as a means of information transfer and as a whole is a necessary “attribute” in the life of each person. There is, for example, the language of the deaf and dumb, and this is also a means of communication, … Read more
The most famous of Byron’s poems is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. The poem was created in parts. The first two of her songs were written during Byron’s trip to Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece. The third song – on the shores of Lake Geneva after the final departure from England, the fourth song is completed already in … Read more
Rummaging in a box with toys, I pulled out a compass with a torn off arrow, which I was given a few years ago. The compass quickly bored me, and when the arrow fell off, I put it on the bottom of the box and forgot. Why did I suddenly want to take him back … Read more
For two hundred thousand years man and animals live side by side on planet Earth. During this time, not only the appearance of man and animals changed, but also the relationship between them. At first man used animals as a source of food. Primitive people went hunting and killed animals for meat, skins, fangs. Scientists … Read more
The main character of the novel IA Goncharov “Oblomov” – Ilya Ilich Oblomov. He was a landowner who lived from his serfs working for him. Since childhood he has had a carefree life, his servants cared about everything. They dressed him, fed him, looked after him, did everything for him. He lived in the ancestral … Read more
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
Types of word combinations by stem word Depending on the affiliation of the main word to one or another part of speech, the lexico-grammatical types of word combinations differ: verbal, nominal and adverbial. In more detail, the classification by such a feature can be represented as follows. – Verbal word combinations with a dependent noun … Read more
None of the periods of development of art does not pass without a trace. Artistic discoveries of classicism are alive to the present day. One of the testimonies of the living significance of classicism in literature is the work of Moliere. Jean Baptiste Poquelin lived a very short life, but forever entered the history of … Read more
In the woods it is pleasant to walk at any time of the year. His nature is always diverse and invariably beautiful. It is very interesting to observe the forest inhabitants: squirrels, hares, small birds, sometimes you can meet a hedgehog. It seems to me that the best place for animals is the forest, the … Read more
Maupassant liked to embarrass the peace of self-satisfied townsfolk. In the 1870s, when Europe was seized by fear of terrorist acts of Russian Narodnaya Volya, the young writer, together with his friends’ company, arranged a provocative rally, starting to portray a Russian nihilist with a bomb in a suburban train crammed with rich bourgeois. Innocent … Read more
Dickens the artist had a rich imagination. This amazing power of imagination and knowledge of the unsightly aspects of the life of Victorian England helped the writer create a multi-faceted and multicolored art world populated by countless comic, dramatic and tragic characters. Dickens’s novels, oversaturated with everyday life, customs, people of different classes, detailed details … Read more
The main reason for this definition of the genre specificity of the work is that in it these social processes and collisions are refracted through the prism of the consciousness and reactions of the central hero, his inner struggle and, finally, his dramatic fate. This hero, commoner “with a strikingly peculiar face,” refers to the … Read more
Use of borrowed plots, which in its processing received a new artistic embodiment, poetic breathing and philosophical content; the special role of the jester in the plays – the character most vividly illustrating the idea of world theatricality and endowed with the power to freely speak the truth, to disrupt the masks from hypocrites and … Read more
The first works of Dickens are marked by the influence of the English Enlightenment, sentimentalism and romanticism. The plot in them was built mainly in the form of a chain of arbitrary situations, in which the hero-traveler alternately got himself. Meetings with different characters telling their stories gave this hero food for generalizations of life … Read more
I am 12 years old. Many of my peers consider themselves already old enough not to believe in miracles. And I recently realized that everything is not so simple. It was a cold winter evening. I returned home from school. I took off my backpack and undressed, I put the kettle on, and, after greeting … Read more
The first impression Dmitry is a man, communication with which always causes only positive emotions. This is a very open, kind, cheerful person by nature. He is very active and purposeful. He has beautiful brown eyes, light fair hair, a benevolent and gentle disposition, he very easily finds a common language with the interlocutor, during … Read more
They say that nature has no bad weather. Each season is beautiful in its own way. Nature changes its attire, and we have the opportunity to spend time in various ways. There are places on earth where there is no such thing as a snowy winter. But this means that people who live there can … Read more
The thought of the responsibility of man for life on Earth is present in every work of the writer, because in this he sees the meaning of a person’s life. Burannyi Edigey is one of those on which the earth holds. He is associated with his era, he is the son of his time. He … Read more
Goodness is what comes from the heart. It can not be placed in any frame, giving it an absolutely precise definition, but it can be felt. Goodness is a person’s ability to do unselfish deeds, not expecting gratitude in return. In the text of EA Permyak, the example of kindness is the actions of the … Read more
You play with the doll, but it’s alive. B. Shaw. Pygmalion The comedy “Pygmalion” – one of the most famous in the work of B. Shaw. At the heart of her story is the ancient myth about the sculptor Pygmalion and his creation – the marble sculpture Galatee. Struck by the beauty and perfection of … Read more
To begin with, what is a style, this word has several meanings. Style – a form of life and activity, characterizing the characteristics of communication, behavior and thinking, the manner of behaving, dressing, methods and methods of work (leadership style). Style – a set of characteristics that characterize the art of a certain time, direction … Read more
In the history of mankind there are names that never cease to excite the minds and hearts of more and more generations. Interest in them is so deep that sometimes even forgotten how long they lived and worked. Over one and a half centuries have passed since the death of Byron, but his name is … Read more
“The most unfortunate of people is the one for whom there was no work in the world.” T. Carlyle Infinitely long federal highway No. 66. It stretches across Oklahoma, Kansas to California itself – the southern happy land where wonderful peaches, apples and other exotic fruits grow on fertile land, where there is work for … Read more
What is remarkable about the life of the writer O. Henry? The real name of this American writer is William Sidney Porter. He lived a short life – only forty-eight years. But it was full of events, which could be enough for two lives. His mother, he did not remember, and his father gave the … Read more
Ukraine took a prominent place in the historical and artistic works of Merimee. In the book “Episode from Russian History: False Dmitriy” the writer proposed an original hypothesis, according to which the impostor was a Zaporozhian Cossack. “Only the Cossack who grew up on the Sich,” argues Merimee, “where only courage and eloquence gave honors, … Read more
Small in volume, written in the form of a story in a story, the story “Gobsek” is directly related to the novel “Father Gorio”. In this story, we again meet with some “recurring heroes” of the “Human Comedy” Honore de Balzac. Among them – Countess de Resto, the eldest daughter of Father Gorio, as well … Read more