Don-Corrado de Herrera
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Poet and translator Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich (1784-1833), the famous creator of the Russian "Iliad", close friend I.A. Krylova and A.S. Pushkin, began as a prose writer and playwright. In his early, times of student benches, writings inspired by Schiller’s work, German robber novels, the first translations of the English Gothic and the French alterations of Shakespeare, is already traced, although “through the dim glass”, an emerging genius of Russian literature. The top of this time, the novel "Don-Corrado de Herrera", is one of the works that stood at the origins of Russian fiction. “Don-Korrado "is written in an eventful tongue, with the incessant cheeky exclamations, rattling curses, inciting commemorations of the underworld and the prince of darkness, by the abundance of cruel," naturalistic "scenes, he is not inferior to the“ monk ”M.-G. Lewis. Gnedich was one of the first to bring to the Russian scene of the hero-prisoner, a cruel military leader, a “tomb devouring humanity”. The hero of the novel is an Algerian pirate, an unprincipled Don -Korrado, who became the will of fate became a Spanish nobleman. In the gusts of frenzy, he does not know pity either to his beloved, or to his father, nor to his native brother. The Black Legend about ancient Spain rises on the pages of the novel from the darkness of centuries in all its unbridled, gloomy and attractive splendor: the reader is carried into the abyss of superstitions, fanaticism, ruthless inquisition, conspiracies, murders, violence and dishonor. The author’s imagination does not know, I will keep the executions, villains and cruelty, performed by his heroes in the painting.
Other works, the most important for the Russian "Freetatic" literature, were included in the “additions" section” of this publication. In the story of Gnedich "Moritz, or the victim of the revenge" The plot line of the Schillera "robbers" (the story of two brothers, cruel and righteous, and the lover between them) develops with “Gothic” episodes (and, above all, an attempt to rape in the crypt, which brings back to memory The "monk" Lewis) In the "Robberian" play "Wolf, or the criminal from contempt" (not completed, but the grand undersics planned as a tragedy in fifteen actions), the criminal hero is not an infernal villain, but a victim of dramatic ups and dousers and cruel intent. Finally, for the first time, the play “Dead Castle "V.T. Direct - "Student of Moscow University", and in the future - a prominent prose writer, one of the founders of the Russian real novel. In this bloody drama to the motive of "Udolf secrets" A. Radcliffe and "robbers" fr. Schiller enriches the sophisticated fantasies of the young author with bizarre conflicts of the plots of the works rattling throughout the world: ghosts, locks, dungeons, gloomy towers, dungeons and captives by a stormy series, folding into a pulsating and lively, unusually juicy picture.
The author E.O. will allow to perceive the work of the author Larionova, as well as a thorough comment.
It is recommended to the widest circle of readers
Other works, the most important for the Russian "Freetatic" literature, were included in the “additions" section” of this publication. In the story of Gnedich "Moritz, or the victim of the revenge" The plot line of the Schillera "robbers" (the story of two brothers, cruel and righteous, and the lover between them) develops with “Gothic” episodes (and, above all, an attempt to rape in the crypt, which brings back to memory The "monk" Lewis) In the "Robberian" play "Wolf, or the criminal from contempt" (not completed, but the grand undersics planned as a tragedy in fifteen actions), the criminal hero is not an infernal villain, but a victim of dramatic ups and dousers and cruel intent. Finally, for the first time, the play “Dead Castle "V.T. Direct - "Student of Moscow University", and in the future - a prominent prose writer, one of the founders of the Russian real novel. In this bloody drama to the motive of "Udolf secrets" A. Radcliffe and "robbers" fr. Schiller enriches the sophisticated fantasies of the young author with bizarre conflicts of the plots of the works rattling throughout the world: ghosts, locks, dungeons, gloomy towers, dungeons and captives by a stormy series, folding into a pulsating and lively, unusually juicy picture.
The author E.O. will allow to perceive the work of the author Larionova, as well as a thorough comment.
It is recommended to the widest circle of readers
Author:
Author:Gnedich Nikolai Ivanovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Romance & Love
- Category:Historical Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Series:
Series: Literary Monuments
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86218-574-4
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