This material is dedicated to the ten most famous writers of the world, who created their legendary works in different languages.
Those who are even a little interested in literature, no doubt familiar with their work. The names of these writers are written in gold letters in the pages of world history.
The works created by these great word masters are still in great demand, and their biographies and personalities are still the subject of rigorous 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, like the very personality of the writer, left few indifferent.
Significant work of Oscar Wilde was the novel “Portrait of Dorian Gray”.
Other famous works of the writer were works:
- The 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 wandering knight and his faithful squire became common nouns. 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 that personifies 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 novels:
- “Notre Dame Cathedral”,
- The Les Miserables
- “The man who laughs.”
A fan of Gothic art, he expressed contempt for the laws of the society that prevailed at that time and opposed human inequality and social injustice.
Hugo created his novel “Les Miserables” while in a creative crisis, however, it was this work that became one of the most beloved among the writer’s admirers all over the world.
7. Fedor Dostoevsky
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky No wonder they call it the conscience of the Russian people. His works are filled with a 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 were at the very bottom of life.
His characters are distinguished by color and ambiguity.
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 contemporaries of the writer.
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. Leo Tolstoy
Graph Leo Tolstoy - A famous Russian writer and philosopher, who is recognized as one of the greatest novelists and novelists in the world.
After himself, he managed to leave not only a huge creative legacy (the novels “Anna Karenina”, “War and Peace”, “Resurrection”, etc.), but also a whole religious and philosophical movement, whose followers 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 the link between the classic novel of the 19th century and the literature of the “new 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.
His incredible poetic talent and talent as a prose writer are difficult to put on a par with both his outstanding predecessors and no less famous followers.
Popular poetic works of Pushkin (“Confession”, “Chaadaev”, “In the depths of Siberian ores ...”), poems (“Eugene Onegin”), prose (“Captain’s daughter”, “Belkin’s novel”), 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 person with many outstanding talents.
In addition to his extensive literary work, he was engaged in philosophy, science and politics.
Goethe's works do not lose relevance and are philosophical in nature. And his world-famous tragedy “Faust”, 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 Tauris.”
3. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - The name of this greatest English playwright has been known to everyone since school. We cry over the tragic fate of the heroes of his immortal tragedies “Romeo and Juliet”, “Othello”, “Hamlet” and “King Lear”; we laugh at his equally talented comedies “Much Ado About Nothing,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” etc .; Declaration of love incredibly lyrical and deep sonnets.
Shakespeare’s plays have been translated into all major languages and are staged on better stages more often than the works of other famous playwrights.
2. Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri - the greatest Italian poet, filisof, theologian, is considered one of the “fathers” of the literary Italian language.
In addition to his literary works, Dante is known as an active politician of his time. Despite his great creative mastery of world literature, he is primarily famous for the creation of the great work “Divine Comedy,” which became for the writer himself an apotheosis of all his creative searches.
In this work, Dante adheres to the traditional medieval religious worldview, “saturated” with extreme asceticism.
Here the writer proclaims all earthly blessings as nothing meaning decay, and focuses his thoughts on God, as 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 and 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 works, but also the most valuable monuments of European culture, Homer created the comic poem Margit.
Ancient sources that have survived to this day give a more or less accurate idea that, in the era of antiquity, Homer's literary works were considered a storehouse of worldly wisdom.
His poems contained knowledge of almost all spheres of life - from universal morality to the main principles of military science.