Literary portraits: In search of the beautiful. Morois A.

Andre Morua is a famous French writer, a member of the French Academy, a classic of French literature of the 20th century. His creative heritage is vast and multifaceted - psychological novels, novels, traveling essays, historical and literary works, etc. But first of all, Morua is a recognized master of the novelized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Viktor Hugo, etc. And therefore the writer's appeal to the genre of the literary portrait - his own The clan of mini-biographies, a small essay on one or another colleague in the workshop was not accidental. Combining essays into cycles, Morois built his history of the development of literature. In this book, Murois pays a lot of attention to his contemporaries - French writers Andre Jew, Romain Romain Rollan, Jean Cocteau, Jean Pole Sartre and Simone de Bovoir, Louis Aragon and others. But there are sections dedicated to the outstanding authors of other countries and epochs - Herodotus, Herodotus, Shakespeare, L. Tolstoy and others. Incredible erudition, the accuracy of observations, the skill of presentation allow Morois to perfectly convey the psychological and creative portraits of their heroes. The real edition made up two copyright collections - “From the Jew to Sartre” and “From Aragon to Monterlan”. Most of the texts are printed in Russian for the first time.