A lady with camellias. Dumas A., son

“Lady with Camellias”-Alexander Dumas-Sin’s novel about problems, not everyone was solved on the open discussion of which in the middle of the 19th century. This is a book about the love of the deadly ill Margarita Gauthier, the lady of the hemisphere, to the young and romantic Arman Duval, about the love, tragic and doomed.

, the story, inspired by the author’s feelings to Marie Duplesser, is a model of psychological literature of an incomparable depth. The image of the Parisian courtesan on the stage was embodied by the great actress Sarah Bernard, and in the cinema, the star of the World Greta Garbo. At the premiere of the play created according to the novel, composer J. Verdi visited, subsequently composed based on Lady with Camellias, the famous opera La Traviata.