Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog"
A homeless dog Sharik, who lived in Moscow, was scrubbed with a boiling water by one cruel cook. It was December, and Sharik, with his side wounded from the burn,…

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Ariosto, "Furious Roland"
Poem Ludoviko Ariosto “Furious Roland” had more than 80 editions in the XVI century. The elegant and at the same time simple language brought her a quick triumph over the…

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Aristophanes "Clouds"
Somewhat different from the usual carnival type of Aristophanes are his comedies, which pose problems of a non-political, but cultural order. Already the first (not come down to us) comedy…

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“European Herald” – Karamzin magazine

Creativity Karamzin in the years of the reign of Alexander I is of considerable interest. A sentimentalist writer, an individualist, essentially his temperament, who was first interested in mainly his sensitive soul — he appeared in the Alexander’s epoch as a public figure and publicist. Karamzin wrote and published a whole series of articles reflecting the living interests of our time in the journal “Vestnik Evropy” (1802-1830), the editor-in-chief of which was. Continue reading

ART BOOKS

The art book is a stumbling block in the perennial issue of “execution can not be pardoned.” Only in our case – “buy cannot be downloaded”. Yes, they are often cumbersome, heavy, and one cannot say that for daily reading, they surely are rarely seen as wiped. Such an unexpected question comes to mind: “What is the Art Book? Is this actually a book about Arta, or something more?

Surely at each of us at home you can find a couple of top three books with the promising title a la “500 world masterpieces of the universal scale” or “Contemporary art now then always everywhere”, etc. Is this an art book? Continue reading

The basis of the interaction of fiction

Science fiction as a genre in culture and media reality in one degree or another together and not randomly characterize modernity. This can be demonstrated by examples from the gaming industry, visual arts, network communication – the media forms of self-expression of the subject of modern culture. They are informative, according to the plot, quite often refer to a meeting with phenomena that do not have referents in reality, that is, fantastic. Of course, a fantastic genre in culture has a longer history than media reality. Even in the ancient epic and mythology, there are attempts of a person to comprehend the laws of nature through explaining them with the help of magic as a fantastic form and to create an appropriate narrative. Continue reading

Gogol "Wii"
When analyzing the novel “Viy”, it immediately catches the eye that it is a work in which, like in Gogol’s other early stories, romanticism is inextricably mixed with realism: genre…

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Puglia "Golden Ass"
The Roman writer Apuleius won his main glory with the novel Metamorphoses (Transformations). Subsequently, this novel, in connection with the high appreciation of its readers, received another name, the Golden…

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