Category: Essays on literatuire
Questions and Answers to Stendhal’s novel “The Red and the Black”
What facts of Stendhal’s biography influenced his views? A fascination with the ideals of the Enlightenment, reading of the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot; Participation in the campaign of Napoleon’s army in 1812 to Moscow. What are the aesthetic views of Stendhal, reflected in the novel “Red and Black”? Aesthetic views of Stendhal formed on…
The symbolism of the title of the novel “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal
A chervonium is a love, And chorny – then the magazine… D. Pavlychko Since the advent of the novel Stendhal more than 150 years have passed. The novel was read by millions of people in many languages. Many books written about Stendhal’s writings have been written, but so far literary critics can not come to…
About the work of Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire, one of the greatest French poets of the nineteenth century, was the “stepchild” of his time and the forerunner of the time of the future, who opened and presented to the world, according to Victor Hugo’s apt expression, the poetry of “a new thrill.” It is not for nothing that the well-known Ukrainian…
Why is A. Camus’ novel called “Stranger”?
The novel “Stranger” is written in the genre of the philosophical parable. This multifaceted work, recreating the situation of social alienation rights. Roman – notes of the ill-fated murderer who is awaiting execution after the trial, are willy-nilly perceived as an invitation to think about the fairness of the sentence, like a petition for clemency,…
The theme of education and the formation of personality in the novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield”
The novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield” was published in 1850. This work of Dickens is largely autobiographical: the author tells the first person the story of a man who became a writer. David, like Dickens himself, has withstood a grueling struggle against difficult life circumstances. David Copperfield tells his story as if from…
Theme of love in the tragedy of Goethe “Faust”
Oh heaven, that’s beauty! I have never seen such a thing in my life. How unspoilt-pure And how sarcastically, without malice! I. Goethe “Faust” is a work on which Goethe worked almost all his life and which changed along with the author. In the center of the tragedy, the story of Dr. Faust, in the…
On the work of G. Ibsen
Creativity G. Ibsen reflected the most important problems of the moral life of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. and laid the foundation for a new European theater. In his artistic evolution, the playwright went through four stages. The first, “romantic” period of Ibsen’s work was closely connected with the national-patriotic rise that…
What does Aesop’s fable “Peasant and his sons” teach us?
In the 6th century BC there lived a man called Aesop. According to legend, he was a slave from Phrygia. Subsequently, he was released to freedom and he lived for some time at the court of the Lydian king Krez. Why did the name of this man survive the millennium? He is a fabulist. He…
Hemingway EM and Russian Literature
Interest in the study is the theme “Hemingway and Russian literature.” It is known that the literary idol of the American writer was Leo Tolstoy. “I do not know anyone who would write about the war better than Tolstoy,” Hemingway noted, “I love War and Peace, I love the amazing, heartfelt and truthful descriptions of…
The age of gold, who imagines himself a “golden age”
The life story of the great French novelist is, in essence, the story of his work. Balzac himself said: “The main events of my life are my works”. Indeed, very often the “vital material” penetrated the pages of his novels. More than once in his works the story of a young man who because of…