Memoirs of the Devil

Frederick Sulie (1800-1848) is the most popular French prose, poet and playwright, one of the founders of the genre of Roman Faketon. On the path of mass fiction, he is first in the XIX century (Previously, A. Duma and E.Yu) achieved an exceptional non-European success. Contemporaries sometimes put this author above O. de Balzak. Devil"s memoirs" is the best work of Sulie. It has absorbed the experience of "Gothic" literature, historical and social novel. Fascinating intrigue, expressive portraits of heroes, fatal passions and, at the same time, the dictate pathos, the ability to recreate quite recognizable details of real life - all this is undoubtedly appreciated by today"s reader.
The Russian language was transferred for the first time specifically for "literary monuments".
In addition to the article on the work of F. Sulé, the publication is provided with detailed notes, which is not even in the French editions of the novel