As an active reader, I will try to take on the role of an assistant and outline several ideas, making a list of the most recognized and most successful, from my point of view, works of both domestic and foreign literature. Most of these novels have already won, and continue to gain popularity, which means that these are exactly the books that you need to read in order to discover and know this magical, mysterious and such tempting world of literature.
- What to read from the classics? The relevance of the issue.
Usually a similar question arises for those who suddenly realized the need for self-education or decided to fill their gaps from the school course in Russian literature.
This is where the main difficulty arises. Everyone wants to read something from the collection of world masterpieces. But is there such a thing as a literary masterpiece? Critics say that it is impossible to unequivocally answer this question: someone likes Russian literature, and someone foreign, someone reads historical novels to holes , and someone cannot imagine an evening without an exciting love story.
Having visited one of the major second-hand bookshop stores in the capital, I asked the sellers what questions most often asked by visitors. As it turned out, one of the most common appeals is precisely a request for advice on what to read from the classics.
It turns out that in fact there are many who wish, literature of such a plan is in demand, but low awareness sometimes scares potential customers.
2. What to read from the classics? List of suggested literature.
First of all, let us dwell on short stories. By the way, they should be understood as a shorter form of presentation of current events than, for example, a story or a story. This type of story is characterized by the presence of only one storyline, and the number of characters is very limited.
I would single out the following works:
- Augustine "Treatises"
- D. Swift "Gulliver's Travels"
- F. Kafka "Process"
- M.de Montain "Complete Essay"
- N. Hawthorne "Scarlet's Letter"
- G. Melville "Moby Dick"
- R. Descartes "The Principles of Philosophy"
- C. Dickens "Oliver Twist"
- G. Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
- D. Austin "Pride and Prejudice"
If you do not know what to read from the classics, but prefer works that reveal everyday subjects that are very close to ordinary life, most likely dramas - this is just the genre that will suit you.
- Aeschylus "Agamemnon"
- Sophocles "The Oedipus Myth"
- Euripides "Medea"
- Aristophanes "Birds"
- Aristotle "Poetics"
- W. Shakespeare "Richard III", "Hamlet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Moliere "Tartuffe"
- W. Congreve, "They Do It in the Light"
- Henryk Johan Ibsen "The Doll House"
Dreamers and romantics very often in poetry try to find answers to their questions. What to read from the classics in the poetic genre? Many things. But especially I would single out:
- Homer Iliad and Odyssey
- Horace "Ode"
- Dante Alighieri "Hell"
- W. Shakespeare "Sonnets"
- D. Milton "Paradise Lost"
- W. Wordsworth Favorites
- S.T. College "Poems"
As for the works of our country, is there really nothing worthy? “Well, of course not!” - If I were asked to answer the question of what to read from Russian classics, I would certainly recommend The Masters and Margarita by M. Bulgakov, Mtsyri by M. Lermontov, poems and poems by A. Pushkin.
3. Reading the masterpieces of world literature. What does this give us?
But is it worth returning to this direction, or is it better and more correct to pay more attention to contemporary works? It is very, very difficult to answer this question unequivocally.
Sometimes opinions are divided just the same radically.
For example, opponents of classical literature argue that it is completely out of date, has lost relevance, gradually turning into a kind of utopia. In turn, philologists and students of linguistic universities protect the masterpieces of the world epic, insisting that, without studying the history, culture and subtleties of the language, it is impossible to understand and comprehend our world today.
Well ... Well, each side of the law is different in its own way ... Probably, everyone will agree that, say, the "Odyssey" of Homer is not the so-called pulp fiction for vacation or empty time. It’s difficult to read a work of such a plan and you need to do it thoughtfully, slowly and without distraction, comprehending and remembering details. Not everyone can do it.
It is such books that can introduce the reader to the world of both native and foreign literature, help to better understand the traditions, culture and mentality of peoples. They will also reveal all the charm and richness of the colors of the narrative language, thereby replenishing the reader’s vocabulary.
Undoubtedly, reading all the books mentioned in this article may take several years, but in any case, of course, this will not be time wasted.