Проспер Мериме. Собрание сочинений в 4 томах (комплект из 4 книг)

Merime's short stories are the most popular part of his literary heritage. Who is not familiar with the hand-drawn images of Matteo Falcone and Carmen, Tamango or Colomba! They have become an ever-living heritage of world culture.
The best works of Mérimén as a novelist played an important role in the development of modern French realistic literature.
Having adopted the advanced traditions of the French narrative prose of the 18th century, following the precepts of Lesage and Prevost, Voltaire - the author of philosophical stories, and Diderot the novelist, Mérimée the novelist acted at the same time as a bold innovator who cleared the way for the further conquests of Flaubert, Maupassant and Anatole France .
Mérimée's work is one of the most brilliant pages in the history of French literature of the 19th century.

Includes famous works - "Colombes", "Etruscan Vase" and little-known things of the author

Volume 1. The work "Guzla" (1827) is connected with a literary hoax, consists of ballads in prose and sings of the greatness and heroism of the people, who strained their strength in the selfless struggle for freedom, against foreign enslavers.
Historical novel "Chronicle of the reign of Charles 9" (1829) - a kind of result of the ideological and artistic searches of the writer in these years.
Volume 2. Mosaic c. 5 - 158
Stories and short stories c. 159 - 432
Notes c. 433 - 447
Volume 3. Novels and short stories p. 159 - 432
Appendix c. 206 - 290
Notes c. 291 - 302
Volume 4. Clara Gasoul Theater" is an extremely original phenomenon in the French dramaturgy of the 20s of the 19th century. Mérimée's plays, imbued with sympathy for the liberation movement of the Spanish people, sounded fervently, breathed optimistic faith in the inevitability of the victory of the progressive beginning ...
In the Jacquerie, Mérimée depicted the events of the Jacquerie, the largest anti-feudal uprising of the French peasantry that unfolded in the 14th century.The life of medieval society, widely covered by the writer, appears in the Jacquerie as an unceasing harsh and bloody social struggle.< br />Teatro Clara Gasoul Piece pp. 5 - 244
Jacquerie pp. 245 - 402
Notes pp. 403 - 414