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10 ГЕНИЕВ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ

Bibliographic Description

10 гениев литературы / Кочемировская, Е.А. – Харьков : Фолио, 2006. – (10 гениев). – ISBN 966-03-3184-3.

Author
Кочемировская, Е.А.
Publisher
Фолио
Year of publication
2006
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The heroes of this book are 10 geniuses of literature, who saw the world differently from others and created works that influenced the worldview of entire generations. What unites these people? Homer, who, according to legend, was deprived of sight by the Muses but rewarded with poetic gift... Omar Khayyam, a scholar and poet, a mocker and reveler, unrecognized by his contemporaries but now known to the whole world... The exile Dante, who knew both Paradise and Hell, whose works are the best guide to medieval Italy... Shakespeare, called the most outstanding Englishman of the millennium, and at the same time the most enigmatic figure in the five-thousand-year history of literature... Cervantes, whose novel "Don Quixote" was mocked in his lifetime but later recognized as the greatest work of all time and all peoples... Pushkin - a poet in disgrace, who is everything for Russian letters and literature, and not only Russian... Tolstoy and Dostoevsky - two titans who lived at the same time (although it is thought that one era can give rise to only one genius), who knew both fame and the incomprehension of their contemporaries. Bulgakov, whose main novel saw the light of day only after his death... Marquez, who became a classic in his own lifetime and even now creates his works "out of the pleasure of telling stories"... It is indeed hard to find such disparate and dissimilar people. But they are united by titanic labor, the ability to create new worlds, and a boundless devotion to Literature, which condemned them to a difficult fate, and often to loneliness, but granted them Immortality.

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