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Before sunrise

The autobiographical and scientific novel “Before Sunrise” is a confessional story about how the author tried to defeat his melancholy and fear of life. He considered this fear to be his mental illness, and not at all a feature of his talent, and he tried to overcome himself and inspire himself in a childishly cheerful worldview....

Timur and his team

Colonel Alexandrov has been at the front for three months now. He sends a telegram to his daughters in Moscow, invites them to spend the rest of the summer in the country. The eldest, eighteen-year-old Olga, goes there with things, leaving the thirteen-year-old Zhenya to clean up the apartment. Olga studies as an engineer, makes music, sings, ...

Ideal female images in the work of Russian poets

(276 words) In the work of many poets, a significant role is played by the theme of love, inextricably linked with the images of certain women who give writers this feeling. For example, the famous seducer of ladies, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, in the poem “K ***” vividly depicted the image of his beloved, equating ...

Analysis of Mayakovsky’s poem “Nate!”

Vladimir Mayakovsky is a brilliant poet of the first half of the twentieth century. This is a man with a very tragic fate. He was a supporter of the global idea that “art is changing the world”, but, in essence, it turned out completely different. Any creativity is congenial to the era. And Mayakovsky lived in a difficult, post-revolutionary ...

Free: The Future of Radical Prices

Companies think product shortages will make more money. In the 1930s, record labels faced a problem. Radio appeared in every home, hundreds of thousands of people began to listen to music for free, stopping going to concerts and buying albums. Labels tried to stop radio stations from playing their music ...

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Peasant and Death In the cold winter, the old peasant picks up a logger and, groaning, carries it to his smoky shack. Stopping on his way to rest, he drops a bundle of firewood from his shoulders, sits on it and begins to complain about fate. In a speech addressed to himself, the old man recalls which ...

Full biography of Pushkin: life and work of the great poet

To the teacher’s question: “Which writers do you know?” - the students instantly respond: “Pushkin,” - then they recall Lermontov and other authors. His work made a great contribution to the development of culture. He is the founder of modern Russian poetry. In the works I used Russian-French methods of literature, ...

Autumn light

The action of the novel "Autumn Light" takes place in an American province, away from big cities. The quiet life of small towns, far removed at first glance from the senseless fuss and frantic pace of megacities, is not alien to the “damned” problems of technocratic civilization, the dark, heinous sides of big business ...

In the maze

The scene is a small town on the eve of the advent of enemy troops. According to the author, the events described in the novel are strictly real, that is, they do not claim any allegorical significance, but the reality is not portrayed in it as the reader is familiar with ...

Composition: Vasily Terkin in the war

(278 words) It is difficult to imagine military literature without the poem by Alexander Twardowski "Vasily Terkin." It was in this work that the writer created a unique image of a Russian soldier, which is the embodiment of the whole nation in the war years. How did Terkin behave on the battlefield, since he is forever ...

US Literature

The real life of Sebastian Knight

“Sebastian Knight was born on the thirty-first of December 1899 in the former capital of my fatherland” - this is the first phrase of the book. Pronounced by her half younger brother Knight, indicated in the novel by the letter “V.” Sebastian Knight, a famous writer, a native of Russia, who wrote in English, died in January 1936. ...

Soviet literature

As the Steel Was Tempered

Nikolai Ostrovsky’s autobiographical novel is divided into two parts, each of which contains nine chapters: childhood, adolescence and youth; then mature years and illness. For an unworthy act (he put makhra in the dough for the priest), the cook of his son, Pavka Korchagin, is expelled from school, and he gets "into the people."...

British literature

Maltese Jew

In the prologue, Machiavelli says that everyone considers him dead, but his soul flew over the Alps and he arrived in Britain with friends. He considers religion a toy and claims that there is no sin, but there is only stupidity, that power is affirmed only by force, and the law, like the Dragon, is strong only with blood. Machiavelli ...