Великосветский прием. Учитель Гнус

'Velikosvetskiĭ priem' - 'khronika utrachennogo vremeni', kotorai͡a otkryvaet pered chitatelem ne tolʹko panoramu chelovecheskikh sudeb, no i iznanku zhizni i chuvstv.Deĭstvie romana razvorachivaetsi͡a v osobni͡ake, gde uporno, chas za chasom, ti͡anetsi͡a velikosvetskiĭ priem, uchastniki kotorogo skuchai͡ut i razvlekai͡utsi͡a, filosofstvui͡ut i flirtui͡ut, razbivai͡ut serdt͡sa i perezhivai͡ut lichnye 'malenʹkie tragedii'…'Uchitelʹ Gnus' - roman, napisannyĭ na styke psikhologicheskogo realizma i sot͡sialʹnoĭ satiry, kotoryĭ podvergalsi͡a zhestkoĭ kritike, a posle vykhoda filʹma 'Goluboĭ angel' (1930) s legendarnoĭ Marlen Ditrikh v glavnoĭ roli poluchil mirovui͡u slavu.Smeni͡ai͡utsi͡a ėpokhi, no v gimnazii malenʹkogo provint͡sialʹnogo gorodka po-prezhnemu tiranit uchenikov uchitelʹ Nuss po prozvishchu Gnus - mstitelʹnyĭ despot, istinnoe voploshchenie vlastoli͡ubt͡sa. Kto on? Realʹnyĭ chelovek ili simvol vremeni, kotoroe uporno ne khochet otstupatʹ pered vei͡anii͡ami budushchego?

The "High—society reception" is a "chronicle of lost time", which opens up to the reader not only a panorama of human destinies, but also the inside of life and feelings.The novel takes place in a mansion, where a high-society reception is persistently held, hour after hour, the participants of which are bored and have fun, philosophize and flirt, break hearts and experience personal 'little tragedies'...'The Gnus Teacher is a novel written at the junction of psychological realism and social satire, which was severely criticized, and after the release of the film Blue Angel (1930) starring the legendary Marlene Dietrich, it gained worldwide fame.Epochs are changing, but in the gymnasium of a small provincial town, the teacher Nuss, nicknamed Vile, is still tyrannizing over students - a vindictive despot, the true embodiment of a power lover. Who is he? A real person or a symbol of a time that stubbornly does not want to retreat before the trends of the future?