Literary Portraits: The Art of Foreseeing the Future

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André Maurois is a famous French writer, a member of the French Academy, a classic of French literature of the XNUMXth century. His creative heritage is extensive and multifaceted - psychological novels, short stories, travel essays, historical and literary works, etc. But above all, Maurois is a recognized master of the novelized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, etc. And therefore the writer’s appeal to the genre of literary portrait - his kind of mini-biography, a small essay dedicated to one or another colleague in the shop, was not accidental. Combining essays into cycles, Maurois built his own history of the development of literature. In this book, Maurois pays much attention to his contemporaries - the French writers André Gide, Romain Rolland, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Louis Aragon and others. But there are sections in it dedicated to outstanding authors of other countries and eras - Herodotus, Shakespeare, L. Tolstoy and others. Incredible erudition, accuracy of observations, mastery of presentation allow Morois to perfectly convey the psychological and creative portraits of his heroes. This edition was compiled by two author's collections - "From Gide to Sartre" and "From Aragon to Monterlane". Most of the texts are printed in Russian for the first time.

Barcode: 9785389199248 SKU: 70149753 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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