Семь жен Синей Бороды

Kniga "Semʹ zhen Sineĭ Borody" nobelevskogo laureata Anatoli͡a Fransa vyshla v 1909 godu. Vse novelly postroeny na skazochnom ili legendarnom si͡uzhete. No samye udivitelʹnye chudesa ne vyderzhivai͡ut soprikosnovenii͡a s deĭstvitelʹnostʹi͡u: zakonchennyĭ zlodeĭ Sini͡ai͡a Boroda okazyvaetsi͡a prostakom; pri dvore Spi͡ashcheĭ Krasavit͡sy t͡sari͡at melochnye intrigi, razbudivshiĭ ee prekrasnyĭ print͡s - tolʹko "kni͡azek s khoroshenʹkimi usikami"; voskreshennye svi͡atym Nikolaem malʹchiki prevrashchai͡utsi͡a v grabiteli͡a, rostovshchika i eretika; i nichto na svete ne v sostoi͡anii ubeditʹ trezvogo ėpikureĭt͡sa Bulengrena v sushchestvovanii feĭ. Zato vechnye voprosy, volnui͡ushchie kazhdogo cheloveka, reshai͡utsi͡a v novellakh neozhidanno i izi͡ashchno. Ne v samozabvenii li schastʹe? Mozhet li porok statʹ dobrodetelʹi͡u? Vsegda li schastliv bogatyĭ chelovek? I kak bytʹ li͡ubimym?

The book "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard" by Nobel laureate Anatole France was published in 1909. All the novels are based on a fabulous or legendary plot. But the most amazing miracles do not stand up to contact with reality: the finished villain Bluebeard turns out to be a simpleton; petty intrigues reign at the court of the Sleeping Beauty, the handsome prince who awakened her is only a "prince with a pretty mustache"; the boys resurrected by St. Nicholas turn into a robber, a usurer and a heretic; and nothing in the world is able to convince a sober Epicurean Boulengren's belief in the existence of fairies. But the eternal questions that concern every person are solved unexpectedly and gracefully in the novels. Isn't there happiness in self-forgetfulness? Can vice become a virtue? Is a rich person always happy? And how to be loved?