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The first in Russian is a complete collection of oriental stories and fairy tales of one of the most distinctive English writers - William Beckford (1760-844), which was previously known to the Russian reader only by his variation on the topic of Faust - the story "Batek" translated by B.K. Zaitsev, carried out in 1911 and reprinted in 1967 in the series "Literary Monuments", after which repeatedly reprinted.
Having inherited from his father, Lord mayor London, a huge fortune, which allowed the collection of books, art and antiquities, travel a lot, build two towers in England, and in Portugal to luxuriously furnish the palace mentioned by Byron in the poem "Pillowry of Child-Garold ", Beckford, as it were, anticipated the wanderings of the famous literary hero: he lived a long life, saturated with extraordinary events, became a witness to the French Revolution of 1789-1792, impressed contemporaries with extravagant acts. His creativity, which reflected the extraordinary personality, the ardent temperament and the amazing breadth of knowledge, he influenced such different poets and writers as Lord Bairon, Thomas Moore, Stefan Mallarma, Benjamin Dizraeli, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. They were admired by Aldernon Swinburn, Andre Jew, Prosper Merime, Jorge Louis Borges and many. dr. French - fairy -tale stories in the oriental style. At the same time, the young writer did not follow the read, but reinvented the traditional ones or invented his own original plots and images.
It is not always easy to determine the genre belonging of Bekford"s works: oriental folklore and fairy -tale motifs are intertwined in them with the features of knightly and Gothic novels, as well as education novels, expressionist sketches are found, elements of terrible, fantastic and grotesque, often the narrative turns into a parody of The usual genres. Egypt, the Middle East, Arabia, Persia, Turkey, Mesopotamia, India, China, Spain of the HLP century - this is an incomplete list of exotic places of action in the eastern Creations of Beckford, written between the ages of 15 to 23 years
Having inherited from his father, Lord mayor London, a huge fortune, which allowed the collection of books, art and antiquities, travel a lot, build two towers in England, and in Portugal to luxuriously furnish the palace mentioned by Byron in the poem "Pillowry of Child-Garold ", Beckford, as it were, anticipated the wanderings of the famous literary hero: he lived a long life, saturated with extraordinary events, became a witness to the French Revolution of 1789-1792, impressed contemporaries with extravagant acts. His creativity, which reflected the extraordinary personality, the ardent temperament and the amazing breadth of knowledge, he influenced such different poets and writers as Lord Bairon, Thomas Moore, Stefan Mallarma, Benjamin Dizraeli, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. They were admired by Aldernon Swinburn, Andre Jew, Prosper Merime, Jorge Louis Borges and many. dr. French - fairy -tale stories in the oriental style. At the same time, the young writer did not follow the read, but reinvented the traditional ones or invented his own original plots and images.
It is not always easy to determine the genre belonging of Bekford"s works: oriental folklore and fairy -tale motifs are intertwined in them with the features of knightly and Gothic novels, as well as education novels, expressionist sketches are found, elements of terrible, fantastic and grotesque, often the narrative turns into a parody of The usual genres. Egypt, the Middle East, Arabia, Persia, Turkey, Mesopotamia, India, China, Spain of the HLP century - this is an incomplete list of exotic places of action in the eastern Creations of Beckford, written between the ages of 15 to 23 years
Author:
Author:Beckford William
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Series:
Series: Monuments of World Literature
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86218-599-7
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