Lady with Camellias

Alexander Dumas (1824-1895) - French playwright and prose writer. The son of Alexander Dumas the Sr. and Katrina Labe, a simple Parisian worker, from whom he inherited a love of a calm way of life, so sharply distinguishing him from his father"s purely bohemian nature. He lived a long saturated life in which there was a place for both violent novels and literary work. Dumas-Sin touched the painful issues of public and family life with courage and talent that made a public event from each of his work. “I draw my plots in dreams,” said Dumas the father, “and my son finds them in reality. I work with my eyes closed - he is open. I draw - he takes pictures.
“Lady with Camellias” - a novel about the problems, not everyone was solved on the open discussion of which in the middle of the 19th century. This is a book about the love of the deadly ill Margarita Gauthier, the ladies of the hemisphere, to the young and romantic Arman Duval, about the love of passionate, tragic and doomed.
The story inspired by the author’s feelings to Marie Dyulpes is an example of the psychological literature of the incomparable depth. The image of the Parisian courtesan on the stage was embodied by the great actress Sarah Bernard, and in the cinema - the star of the world size of Greta Garbo. At the premiere of the play created according to the novel, the composer J. Verdi, who subsequently composed, based on the ladies with camellias, visited the famous opera Traviata