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This material is dedicated to the ten most famous writers in the world who created their legendary works in different languages.
Those who are even a little interested in literature, no doubt, are familiar with their work. The names of these writers are inscribed in golden letters in the pages of world history.
The works created by these great masters of the word are still in great demand, and their biographies and personalities are still the subject of scrupulous study.
10 Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde – an outstanding English prose writer and poet of the second half of the XIX century. He was the brightest representative of aestheticism and European modernism.
His works resonated with contemporaries either in the form of absolute adoration or merciless criticism. However, his original work, however, as well as the personality of the writer, left few people indifferent.
The iconic work of Oscar Wilde was The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Other famous works of the writer were the works:
- “Canterville Ghost”
- “The importance of Being Earnest”,
- “The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile”.
9. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The main work of the world famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, of course, is the legendary novel The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha.
The images of the knight-errant and his devoted squire have become household names. In addition to this great work, Cervantes is the author of a collection of short stories and the novel Galatea.
8. Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo – perhaps the most famous name, personifying the French literature of the XIX century. Undoubtedly, he is one of the most prominent representatives of French romanticism.
The most famous of his creations are considered novels:
- “Notre Dame Cathedral”
- “The Outcasts”
- “The Man Who Laughs”
A fan of Gothic, in his work he expressed contempt for the laws of the society that reigned at that time, and opposed human inequality and social injustice.
Hugo created his novel “Les Misérables” while in a creative crisis, however, it was this work that became one of the most beloved among the writer’s fans around the world.
7. Fedor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky not for nothing is called the conscience of the Russian people. His works are filled with rich philosophical and moral background.
After spending several years in hard labor for participating in the revolutionary movement, Dostoevsky had the opportunity to observe the most terrible hardships and hardships of people who found themselves at the very bottom of life.
His characters are colorful and ambiguous. Throughout his literary work, Dostoevsky acted as an innovator, not going beyond the boundaries of the traditions of Russian realism, which, unfortunately, did not receive due recognition from the writer’s contemporaries.
After his death, Dostoevsky was unconditionally recognized as a classic of Russian and world literature and the founder of Russian personalism.
His work had a significant impact on world literature, especially on the work of a number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as on the development of existentialism and Freudianism.
List of the most famous novels:
- “Idiot”,
- “The Brothers Karamazov”,
- “Crime and Punishment”,
- “White Nights”.
6. Lev Tolstoy
Graph Leo Tolstoy – a famous Russian writer and philosopher, who is recognized as one of the greatest novelists in the world.
After himself, he managed to leave not only a huge creative heritage (the novels “Anna Karenina”, “War and Peace”, “Resurrection”, etc.), but also a whole religious and philosophical movement, the followers of which called themselves “Tolstoyans”.
Tolstoy, during his lifetime was recognized as a classic of Russian literature. His work marked a new stage in domestic and world realism, becoming a link between the classic novel of the XNUMXth century and the literature of the “modern time”.
5. Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin – this is not only “our everything” for all Russian and Russian-speaking people, but also a large-scale personality who made a huge contribution to the “treasury” of world literature.
It is difficult to put his incredible poetic talent and talent as a prose writer on a par with both his outstanding predecessors and no less famous followers.
Pushkin’s poetic popular works (“Confession”, “To Chaadaev”, “In the depths of Siberian ores …”), poems (“Eugene Onegin”), prose (“The Captain’s Daughter”, “Belkin’s Tales”), dramatic famous works (“Don Juan ”) are masterpieces of not only domestic, but also world literature.
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Greatest Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He was a versatile personality with many outstanding talents.
In addition to his extensive literary activity, he was involved in philosophy, the study of natural sciences and politics.
Goethe’s works do not lose their relevance and are of a philosophical nature. And his world-famous tragedy “Faust” is unconditionally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of German and world classical literature.
Faust is the central figure of many myths and legends that have repeatedly met in the history of literature. It took the writer about 60 years to complete his interpretation of the legend.
Goethe is also known for his works:
- “The suffering of young Werther”,
- “Iphigenia in Tauride”.
3. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – the name of this greatest English playwright is known to everyone since school. We weep over the tragic fate of the heroes of his immortal tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear; we laugh at his no less talented comedies “Much Ado About Nothing”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, etc .; we confess our love with incredibly lyrical and deep sonnets.
Shakespeare’s plays have been translated into every major language and performed on the best stages more often than the works of other famous playwrights.
2. Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri – the greatest Italian poet, philosopher, theologian, is considered one of the “fathers” of the literary Italian language.
In addition to his literary works, Dante is known as an active political figure of his time. Despite his great creative influence in world literature, he is, first of all, famous for the creation of the great work The Divine Comedy, which became for the writer himself the apotheosis of all his creative quests.
In this work, Dante adheres to the traditional medieval religious worldview, “impregnated” with extreme asceticism.
Here the writer declares all earthly blessings as meaningless decay, and focuses his thoughts on God, as on the only important goal of human existence.
1. Homer
This is probably the most famous name associated with ancient literature. Homer – the legendary ancient Greek poet-storyteller, who went down in history primarily as the author of the epic poems “Iliad” and “Odyssey”.
In addition to these works, which with full confidence can be called not only the most talented compositions, but also the most valuable monuments of European culture, Homer created the comic poem “Margit”.
The ancient sources that have survived to this day give a more or less accurate idea that in the era of antiquity, the literary works of Homer were considered a storehouse of worldly wisdom.
His poems contained knowledge about almost all spheres of life – from universal morality to the main principles of military science.