Pygmalion. The house where the hearts break. Show J.B.

The book includes two famous plays by George Bernard Shaw, an outstanding British playwright-innovator, founder (along with Ibsen and Chekhov) of the Chinese Intellectual Theater, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Oscar Prize. “Pygmalion” is the story of the London professor of the phonetics of Henry Higins, who “created” a secular lady from the street flower grinder, and at the same time the story of the Flower Indoor Eliza Dulitl, which made Higins see it not just the material for an interesting experiment, but a living person, became the basis of the most famous musical “My” Beautiful Lady ”(1956) and his Oscar -winning film adaptation (1964) with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in the lead roles.

In the “House where the hearts are broken”, a bizarre house-ship, where the guests lead continuous and barren debate about love and the meaning of life to the accompaniment of whistles and cries of the owner, sage and madman captain Sotover, gradually grows into a symbolic image The old world, which entered the New Age and standing on the threshold of death.