Gadfly. Wojnich E.L.

For more than a hundred years, the novel “Disde” has been worried about many generations of readers, but it was met in different ways. Puritan England reacted to him with restraint. In America, he caused a storm of indignation with his anti -religious character, in Russia he was enthusiastically welcomed, in the USSR it was published by million circulations and was included in the school curriculum. It is no accident that the name of the novel, it refers us to Socrates, which took death for his beliefs. The main character of the boss, like a Greek sage, remains faithful to the ideas that inspired him from his youth. The boss is an international type of revolutionary. In different eras, by different societies, the novel was perceived ambiguously. Today he can again find his fans.