Napoleon

Written by Merezhkovsky in 1927 in exile, in France, the novel “Napoleon "novel” is called criticism almost the first Russian historiophilosophical novel, and Merezhkovsky himself - the best essayist, Napoleon of quotes after Rozanov. "Its essays are written in the language accurate and pure, never indifferent, but a rich feeling and passion. But in the brilliant policemen of his phrase there is a splendor of steel or marble, which sometimes gives a deceptive impression of the cold. I must say that the impression is really deceptive: the reader clearly sees how Merezhkovsky loves his hero, and is involuntarily imbued with the same feeling. Given the multilayer and contradictory attitude to Napoleon in Russia, it is especially interesting to monitor the development, or rather, the flight of the author’s thoughts, for all the new faces that he reveals in the character of his difficult hero