Milch Skitalet

In the fall of 1816, the student of the Dublin Trinity College John Melmot arrives at the estate of his dying uncle, preparing to enter into the rights of the inheritance. The will of the owner of the house, among other things, contains the order to destroy a certain old manuscript stored in his office, and burn the male portrait hanging over the bureau with the inscription “J. Milkhot, 1646 ”, the original of which, according to the dying words of the old man, is still alive ... Thus begins one of the most exciting and terrible books in the literature of romanticism -“ Milch Skitale ”(1820) of the English writer Charles Robert Matyurin. This original philosophical novel and one of the brightest examples of European Gothic prose tells about the tragic fate of the Irish nobleman of the 17th century, who, being obsessed with a “boundless desire for forbidden knowledge,” sold the soul to the devil and gained a gift of allon, foresight and supernatural longevity - a gift that has become it, which has become it. curse. In the perception of subsequent reader generations, the book of Matyurin, going beyond the narrow framework of the “terrible” genre, became a recognized masterpiece of world literature