Category: Essays on literatuire

  • On the work of FG Lorca

    The defining feature of Garcia Lorca’s work is the connection with national folklore sources. Remaining stable and close throughout the entire creative path of the poet, this connection acquired new forms at various stages. In the early period Lorca was more inclined to the literary processing of folklore material and folk-poetic stylization. At the stage…

  • Lonely in the family and in the world

    Franz Kafka – a European writer of the early 20th century was truly a man of peace: a Jew by birth, a Prague resident by birth and residence, a German writer by language and Austrian by cultural tradition. It would seem that such a person must constantly feel his union with all of humanity. However,…

  • An essay on the theme of a culture of speech

    I am sure that without love and respect for one’s native language, there can be no talk about the spiritual culture of man and the culture of his speech. This culture is a testament to the overall development of the individual and speaks of the degree to which a person accustoms to the spiritual values…

  • Jean Callen, nicknamed “Cunning of Death”

    A bearer of the individualistic ideology of a strong personality, a “man of a higher order”, recklessly transgressing any laws, in the novel “Father Gorio” is Vautrin, he is also Jean Coleen, he is also Abbot Carlos Herrera, also a runaway convict “Cunning of Death.” Like many other heroes of Balzac’s “Human Comedy”, Vautrin survived…

  • “Gifts of the Magi”

    I really liked the touching story of the love of two young people, without hesitation, sacrificed to each other the most expensive that they had. Della and Jim rented a cheap apartment, as her husband did not earn much for a family man, and his wife was engaged in farming. The family could not afford…

  • “Vanity, it is always our” I. “Do you agree with this statement of Balzac?

    These words belong to one of the heroes Honore Balzac – Gobsek. Gobsek – the hero of the novel of the same name. His name became a household name, as a symbol of unrestrained desire to accumulate. The passion for accumulation led Gobsak at the end of his life to almost insanity. Lying on his…

  • About the cycle “The Human Comedy” by O. de Balzac

    Having finished the novel “Father Gorio” in 1834, Balzac comes to a fundamentally important decision: he intended to create a grandiose artistic panorama of the life of the French society of the post-revolutionary period, consisting of related novels, stories and stories. To this end, previously written works, after appropriate processing, he includes in the “Human…

  • The nature and the fate of Julien Sorel

    I loved the truth… And where is she? .. Everywhere one thing Hypocrisy or at least charlatanry, Even the most virtuous, even the most Great! Stendhal The subtitle of the novel “Red and Black” by Stendhal is “The Chronicle of the 19th Century.” In fact, the novel can be considered a chronicle of timelessness, which…

  • “Fathers are such fools!”

    I taught them to trample me with their feet… For their sake I have devalued myself. O. de Balzac. Father Gorio In the novel “Father Gorio”, written by Honore de Balzac, we are witnesses to many human dramas and tragedies. But one of the main issues here is the problem of the relationship between fathers…

  • My attitude to the war is composition

    War. Every modern young man or girl can talk about it, based only on historical facts. But is there enough one story to convey all the horror that the same sixteen-, seventeen-year-old boys experienced at the front? Watching the modern youth, you wonder how still frivolously we treat life! In our time, peacetime, you do…