Monk. Lewis M.G.

Matthew Gregori Lewis wrote the first version of the novel in 1796, when he was only 19 years old. The “monk” turned out to be so grandiose that there were a lot of successors - from Pushkin with his knight poor, for whom the image of Madonna became salvation, not a temptation, to the French surrealists who saw in Lewis and de Sad (with enthusiasm for the novel “Monk”) their own predecessors. This is a novel about faith and black fall.