Modern comedy. In 2 volumes

The famous English writer John Golsourcy (1867-1933), Nobel Laureate in Literature, continues the family chronicle "Saga of Forsytes". The second book, "Modern Comedy", is devoted to the next generation - the children of "young Forsytes", which the reader learns at the end of the "saga". Restless time: the First World War has recently ended. Self -time England is shocked by changes: the country has a crisis, unemployment, strikes. The previous values ​​have been devalued, but there are no new ones yet. Universal values ​​were shaken: honesty, responsibility, morality, love, fidelity - double standards appeared in everything. The youth of the lost generation "rushes about in search of their unbearable ideals. This is Fleur, the daughter of Somsa, her husband Michael, the poet Wilfried Desert and the secular lioness Mardzhori, who openly despised the Hangery Victorian morality. Fleur will meet with John, son Irene again, she is happy. And only Soms accurately feels an impending catastrophe ... Youth - and the older generation, post -war England, changes in everything, but the Foresite beginning remains unchanged.

Translation from English. Rita Wright Kovaleva, Maria Lorie, Alexandra Krivtsova. Encoming article by Elena Katishonok

Elena Aleksandrovna Katishonok - Russian prose writer, poet and translator. The author of four novels and three collections of poems. Born and until 1991 lived in Riga. She graduated from the Philfak of the University of Latvia. After emigration lives in Boston, teaches Russian. Laureate of the Prize "Yasnaya Polyana" (2011), finalist of the Russian Bouquer Prize (2010) for the novel "Once upon a time, an old man with an old woman"