Суждения и афоризмы

Description Moralistic literature in France has a deep and varied tradition. It developed side by side with other prose genres - a novel, a short story, a short story, sometimes on an equal footing, sometimes receding into the background, and sometimes obscuring its more spectacular and entertaining rivals in the minds of readers. The very words "moralist", "moralistic" are associated for the Russian ear with preaching, moralizing and inevitably boring reading. Meanwhile, the literature in question pursued normative goals least of all. The task that she set for herself was to know a person in all his complexity, to reveal the secret springs of human behavior, his psyche and its manifestations in social life.