The life of Monsieur de Molière

You can study thousands of books and historical documents and, on their basis, write a bona fide study on the life and deeds of a great person - and in most cases this book will take its place in a number of others like it. It is another matter when a genius writes about a genius, about a writer - his fellow on Peru. Then the “feeling dictates”, then a person appears because of bronze and marble.
The great Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov in the 30s of the last century created a novelized biography of the great French playwright Jean-Batista Moliere. Bulgakov managed not only to combine the talent of the researcher with the literary talent, and a huge human talent is also visible here - the gift of understanding and fantasy, sympathy and complicity. He carefully carried Moliere after three hundred years to raise eternal questions: the relationship of the artist and the authorities, the creator’s responsibility for his talent is not only in the present, but also in the future
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