Oh, sweet & fair's the lady-bird,
And so's the bumble-bee,
But I myself have long preferred
The gentle chimpanzee,
The gentle chimpanzee-e-e,
The gentle chimpanzee-e-e-e-e-e!

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Почему Штифтер привлекателен? Оттого, что на его творчество смотришь сквозь его биографию, оттого, что  "робкий закон бытия" выглядит пикантно на фоне одинокого старика, перпиливающего себе горло бритвой?

Во-первых, Штифтер вызывает восхищение как человек. Прожить нелегкую жизнь, прийти к разочарованию в действительности и людях, и - не вылить свою ( Read more... )

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BURMESTER, Frances G.
The heroine of A November cry (1904) is a farmer-novelist. The hero,  who takes he shooting, and is loved by her, was the publisher's reader who wrote sarcastic comments in the margin of her rejected manuscript. He dies tragically, half-way through a confession, in November. The hero of Davina (1909) marries a woman he does not ( Read more... )

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    He was a thoroughly medieval man, one who, as a feudal chieftain, might have played a respectable part in local history; but, being unfortunately born about three centuries too late, he was painfully out of place in a period of revolution and general upheaval. with no knowledge of the world at large, no experience of public life, fossilized by ( Read more... )