Little tragedies

This book includes the famous" small tragedies" A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837), written by him in Boldino in 1830 - during the period when the "Eugene Onegin" was completed, created by Belkin, "of Kolomna"s house and many lyrical poems. In "small tragedies", which accounted for four dramatic scenes: Surround Knight, "Mozart and Salieri", "Stone Guest" and "Pier during the Plague", the fiction is the exciting history of destructive passions. Greed and sweetness, envy and thirst for immortality master the souls of the heroes of Pushkin. They are not just worried about passion - but they argue her as the highest value of being, serve and worship her in willingness to sacrifice themselves and others. The main tragic conflict is played not between the acting persons and the outside world, but in them themselves in the inner contradictions of their consciousness and personality. The passion for deuters drives and the main character of the story of the peak lady ", which also included in this publication, but the intervention of rock is a favorite topic of Pushkin - in an unpredictable way solves his fate. This is one of the first works of Russian literature, which has been successful in Europe and translated into French by these classics as Andre Job and Prospere Merim