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BURO columnist. Anna Popova confirms: Remarque is not only “Three Comrades” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”, and in Dostoevsky’s work there was even a place for comic stories. This summer we are studying little-known works of Russian and foreign classics.
Charlotte Bronte
“City”
You must have read Jane Eyre. The Town was published six years later, and the two novels are similar in many ways. The narration here is also carried out on behalf of the main character, a kind and honest orphan Lucy Snow, who teaches English to girls in a boarding house. Lucy is a strong, upright and independent girl, especially considering the era that she attributes to meek and docile women. Of course, there was a love line and even a triangle, but not at all with such a happy ending as in the story of little Jane.
William Golding
“heirs”
According to critics, the novel continues and expands on the “Lord of the Flies” idea, only instead of British children trying to survive on a deserted island, the ancients battle the elements and evil within and without. themselves. . Furthermore, those tribes that are at a higher stage of intellectual development cannot boast of moral development.
lev tolstoy
“Berries”
Most of us are familiar with Tolstoy’s work on War and Peace and other works in the school curriculum. Much less well known is the story of noble demagogues who, over a hearty five-course meal, talk about the fate of the people. In its form, Berries is intended to be a rustic children’s story, which makes Tolstoy’s irony seem even more fiery, and the difference between an overstuffed barchuk and simple peasant children is as tangible as possible.
George Orwell
“Gallardo Pounds in Paris and London”
“1984” and “Animal Farm”, you most likely have read, but this book is unlikely. Paris and London can be dirty and unwelcoming when you live in a rooming house and do odd jobs. In this autobiographical novel about a hard life among people who have sunk to the bottom, aspiring writer Eric Arthur Blair wouldn’t even sign his own name and came up with the pen name George Orwell.
Fedor Dostoevsky
“Funny Stories”
If you think that Dostoevsky is a heavy, gloomy and depressing writer, this collection will change your mind. The author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov in the funniest way can tell a vaudeville story about a jealous husband and depict a fight in the cards of two friends.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Citadel”
Not just The Little Prince! The last unfinished work of Exupery is called the pinnacle of his artistic philosophy. The book has no plot as such. Rather, it is a collection of parables and reflections, not always easy to understand, but wise and inspiring.
Michael Bulgakov
“The Life of Monsieur de Molière”
The novelized biography of the son of a royal upholsterer, the great French playwright, addresses Bulgakov’s favorite themes: love, talent and mediocrity, courage and cowardice, the relationship between a creative and those in power, and, of course, literature and theater. .
Erich Maria Remarque
“Episodes on the Desk”
Known primarily as an author of novels, Remarque also wrote stories, not just psychological and historical, but even science fiction. Not all of his early works are considered successful by critics, some have logical inconsistencies and semantic inaccuracies, but it is worth reading them at least to understand how the writer’s creative path began.
Dmitri Likhachev
“Notes and Observations”
The “Letters on Kindness” by Academician Likhachev are much more famous. The “Notes and Observations” collection includes texts from his notebooks, created at different times. In them, the author discusses not only science, but also what is happening around him and how he should be a person.
Virginia Woolf
“Nanny Lagton’s Curtain”
You’ve probably read Mrs. Dalloway in Wolfe. We also recommend this piece. A sheet with a short fairy tale about a nanny who fell asleep while embroidering was accidentally discovered in the archives of the British Museum. In Russia, the book was recently published, with vivid illustrations depicting a nanny and magical beasts.
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