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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more