юмора.лучших юмористических историй это очень веселая книга, содержащая цвет зарубежной и отечественной юмористической прозывека.
Тут есть замечательные произведения, созданные такими королями смеха как Аркадий Аверченко, Саша Черный, Влас Дорошевич, Антон Чехов, Илья Ильф, Джером Клапка Джером, О. Генри и др. Не менее веселыми и задорными, нежели у классиков, являются включенные в книгу рассказы современных авторов Михаила Блехмана и Семена Каминского. Также в сборник вошли смешные истории от серьезных писателей, к примеру Федора Достоевского и Леонида Андреева, чьи юмористические произведения остались практически неизвестны со Aleksandr Kuprin Russian: Александр Иванович КупринSeptemberin the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast August,in Leningrad was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel.
Other well known works include Moloch, Olesya, Junior Captain Rybnikov, Emerald, and The Garnet Braceletwhich was made into amovie.
Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure seekers, who are often neurotic and vulnerable.
Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera duringat the age of thirty seven years.
His mother, Liubov Alekseevna Kuprina Aleksandr Kuprin Russian: Александр Иванович КупринSeptemberin the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast August,in Leningrad was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel.
Other well known works include Moloch, Olesya, Junior Captain Rybnikov, Emerald, and The Garnet Braceletwhich was made into amovie.
Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure seekers, who are often "neurotic and vulnerable.
"Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a minor government official who died of cholera duringat the age of thirty seven years.
His mother, Liubov' Alekseevna Kuprina, Tatar princess of the Kulunchakovs, like many other nobles in Russia, had lost most of her wealth during theth century.
Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during, and duringfinished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School Cadet Corps and Alexander Military School, spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions.
His first short story, The Last Debut, was published duringin a satirical periodical, "In February, Kuprin and Maria
Karlovna Davydova were married, their daughter Lidia born in, " Kuprin's mother died during. Kuprin ended military service during, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc.
Reportedly, "all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction, " His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections, Reportedly, "although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists.
"Although theshort story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duelwhich made him famous.
"Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize winning Ivan Bunin" and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov.
After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels.
His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit, was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.
Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism, While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime.
During spring, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France, He lived in Paris for most of the nextyears, succumbing to alcoholism, He wrote about this in much of his work, He eventually returned to Moscow on May,, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge.
His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union, Kuprin died during the spring ofin Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad.
A minor planetKuprin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh inis named after him.
Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothels, making him a writer for all times and places.
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