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Театр. Рождественские каникулы
"Театр" (1937). Самый известный роман Сомерсета Моэма. Тонкая, едко-ироничная история блистательной, умной актрисы, отмечающей "кризис середины жизни" романом с красивым молодым "хищником"? "Ярмарка тщеславия" бурных двадцатых? Или — неподвластная времени увлекательнейшая книга, в которой каждый читатель находит что-то лично для себя? "Весь мир – театр, и люди в нем — актеры!" Так было — и так будет всегда! "Рождественские каникулы" (1939). История страстной, трагической, всепрощающей любви, загадочного преступления, крушения иллюзий и бесконечного человеческого одиночества…Короткая связь богатого английского наследника и русской эмигрантки, вынужденной сделаться "ночной бабочкой"…Это кажется банальным… но только на первый взгляд. Потому что молодой англичанин безмерно далек от жажды поразвлечься, а его случайная приятельница — от желания очистить его карманы. В сущности, оба они хотят лишь одного — понимания…
512 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2020
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W. Somerset Maugham
1,816 books6,190 followersWilliam Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.
During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.
At the time of Maugham's birth, French law was such that all foreign boys born in France became liable for conscription. Thus, Maugham was born within the Embassy, legally recognized as UK territory.
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February 1, 2025
Театр читала давно и безусловно значительный роман. Но рождественские каникулы, это такое открытие! Изящно, деликатно, но как пронзительно! «и только весь его прошлый мир рухнул…»
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