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The monk and the executioner's daughter. Stories and parables
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The collection includes various works by Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914), who in the United States deservedly gained fame as a master of “Gothic prose.” In his texts, gloomy and mystical, Bierce tried to bring the description of the terrible to the possible limit. His story “The Monk and the Executioner’s Daughter” translated by I. Bernstein is a free retelling of the novel by the German writer R. Voss “The Monk from Berchtesgaden”. In addition to the story, this publication includes more than seven dozen short parables by Bierce, as well as twenty-three stories by the writer. The publication is accompanied by drawings and initial letters by the artist Tatyana Kosach.
Ambrose Bierce was ranked among the classics of American literature in the mid-twentieth century; by that time the writer had long been dead. He would probably be surprised to learn that his fame was brought to him by his gloomy stories and tales in the style of “Gothic prose” imbued with a cynical view of life. About a dozen of them were included in the golden fund of American classics. Ambrose wrote them more for a narrow circle of admirers than for the general public, to whom Bierce was known primarily as a talented journalist who harshly castigated the vices of American society at the end of the 19th century. Ambrose lost the remnants of his youthful romanticism during the Civil War, to which he, coming from a poor large farming family, volunteered. Bierce went through all the major battles, became convinced of the pointlessness of the victims and settled in San Francisco. Pride did not allow him to return to his previous odd jobs - Beers retired with the rank of officer. The talent of a writer helped me find my own independent path in life. The father of the future writer had a good library - thanks to it, Ambrose became acquainted with literary classics. He later contributed to it, becoming the author of laconic, innovative prose that had a huge influence on the development of American “dark literature.” Bierce's follower on this path was the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, whose works are also full of horror, mysticism and fatalism. They permeate Bierce’s story “The Monk and the Executioner’s Daughter,” with which this collection begins. It is considered one of the pinnacles of “Gothic literature.” At the end of his life, the writer, who had a quarrelsome and independent character, in a sense became one of his fatalist heroes. Bierce did not want to face frail old age. Having reached the age of seventy, he crossed the border into Mexico, engulfed in revolutionary flames. In her fire he disappeared without a trace. It’s probably not for nothing that Bierce called one of his stories “Missing in Action.” The book is illustrated with drawings by contemporary St. Petersburg artist Tatyana Kosach. She graduated from the history department of St. Petersburg State University and is a specialist in medieval art. Her iconographic and graphic works can be found in private collections of art lovers in Russia, the USA, Italy and France. In the “Library of World Literature” series, her illustrations adorn the novels “An American Tragedy”, “The Financier”, “The Titan”, “The Stoic” by Theodore Dreiser, “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and “The White Guard” by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov.
See also:
- All books of the publisher SZKEO
- All books by the author
- All books in the series World Literature Library
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| ISBNs | 978-5-9603-0956-1 |
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| The weight | 0,60 kg |
| Size | 170 × 240 mm |
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