Funny nonsense. From Giovanni Bokaccio to Boris Ryzhey. Wester V.

In this book, one hundred portraits of the great and unsurpassed people. Not all of them are only writers, but all of them in world history remained people who created their ingenious books. It was their life. It was their fate. It was in their life, complex and sometimes tragic, the most important thing that Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol spoke about: "There is hardly a higher pleasure, how to create pleasure." And about what they created, back in the fourteenth century, Francesco Petrarch said: “The books contain a special charm; Books cause pleasure in us: they talk to us, give us good advice, they become living friends for us. ” As for us readers, we will take on a noble obligation to read good books thoughtfully and with enthusiasm. It comes to us from the inside. Or from somewhere far from the most studied ways and roads.