The life of Mr. de Moliere. Bulgakov M.

You can study thousands of books and historical documents and, based on them, write a bona fide study on the life and acts of a great person - and in most cases this book will take its place in a number of others like it. It is another matter when a genius writes about a genius, a writer is his fellow on Peru. Then a “feeling dictates”, then a person appears because of bronze and marble. The great Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov in the 30s of the last century created a novelized biography of the great French playwright Jean-Batist Moliere. Bulgakov managed not only to combine the researcher’s talent with literary talent, here a huge human talent is also visible - the gift of understanding and fantasy, sympathy and complicity. He carefully carried Moliere after three hundred years to raise eternal questions: the relationship of the artist and the authorities, the creator’s responsibility for his talent, not only in the present, but also in the future.