Literary portraits: wizards and magicians. 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, short stories, travel essays, historical and literary works, etc. But first of all, Morois is a recognized master of novelized biographies (Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, etc.). And therefore, the writer’s appeal to the genre of the literary portrait-a kind of mini-biography, was not accidental about someone from colleagues in the workshop. This book of Morois is entirely devoted to English literature, the specifics of its development, the result of which was the emergence of such world -famous writers as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Redyard Kipling, Herbert Wells, Bernard show. Morois, who wrote these essays in the 1920s-first half of the 1930s, was worried about the influence of the English authors on all European literature, and the fate of the creative heritage of the closest contemporaries-Litton Streichi, Katherine Mansfield, David Herbert Lawrence, Oldos Huxley and others. Many texts are printed in Russian for the first time.