Laugh people, but perhaps you will some day understand, What is sublime and holy In this miserable Don Quixote. DS Merezhkovsky By the beginning of the XVII century, that is, by the time when the heroes of Cervantes lived, the Renaissance, with its faith in man and in its possibilities, was completed. Great ideas revealed … Read more
Look around and you will see many fascinating things created by the mind and hands of man: radio, telephone, cars, ships, airplanes, missiles. But the most surprising and wise that mankind has created is language. All people on earth are able to speak. They speak different languages, but all languages have one task: to help … Read more
Charles Dickens is a great writer, the creator of the English realistic novel of modern times. The creative heritage of Dickens is rightfully considered an artistic symbol of the life of England during the Victorian period. In realistic novels created by the writer, Victorian England recognized itself in all its unattractive beauty. As a realistic … Read more
How can you explain that the name of the historical novel is dedicated to the fictional character of knight-crusader Ivanhoe? Walter Scott is considered the ancestor of the historical novel. Historical prose presupposes not only a story about the facts of the past, but also a vivid, lively image of them. In the historical novel, … Read more
It has always been a human nature to strive for the knowledge of the future. What is it? What kind of victims will be found if there is nothing to hope for? But it is from despair that amazing dreams are born. This year, my meeting with the talented Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin took place, … Read more
What does it mean to be educated? In childhood we are constantly taught to be polite. It is understandable: coming to this world, a little man does not have any knowledge about his laws or the skills of life in society. Therefore, at home and at school, we constantly hear both soft wishes and firm … Read more
Man is not created to be defeated. A person can be destroyed, but he can not be defeated. E. Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea Time is the strictest judge and the most difficult test of the true value of what the writer created for his life. E. Hemingway honorably withstood this test of … Read more
In the family of a poor girl who lives alone with her mother, there is nothing to eat. In the woods the girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic pot, which only needs to say: “A pot, cook!”, As he himself begins to cook a wonderful sweet millet cereal in any quantities. … Read more
“Letter to the Father,” written by F. Kafka with a purely private purpose, was widely known as a literary and artistic document of the “eternal” theme of the conflict of “fathers and children.” Analyzing in this letter the negative consequences of the father’s education system, Kafka particularly noted: “In this way the world was divided … Read more
The image of the money-lender Hobsek Honore de Balzac creates, using the most complex gamut of realistic and romantic techniques. Therefore, the story, on the one hand, is perceived by the reader as a physiological essay, on the other – it clearly feels the romantic condensation of colors. This primarily relates to the image of … Read more