Харчевня королевы Гусиные лапы

Anatolʹ Frans, chlen Frant͡suzskoĭ akademii i nobelevskiĭ laureat, odnim iz pervykh vvel v roman igru mysli. Imenno myslʹ t͡senit vyshe vsego geroĭ romana abbat Zherom Kuanʹi͡ar, bibliotekarʹ i uchenyĭ, slovno soshedshiĭ s poloten flamandskikh masterov: ponoshennai͡a, so sledami chastoĭ shtopki sutana, razbitye v kabat͡skoĭ drake ochki, razorvannai͡a shli͡apa. Si͡uzhet v romane - ne glavnoe, povestvovanie stroitsi͡a kak serii͡a dialogov, v kotorykh zametno vlii͡anie filosofskikh povesteĭ Volʹtera. Vzi͡avshisʹ obuchatʹ Zhaka Turnebrosha, syna prodavt͡sa mi͡asa, latyni i grecheskomu, abbat Kuanʹi͡ar govorit s nim ob okruzhai͡ushcheĭ zhizni, ob antichnoĭ mifologii i istorii - i dovodit iskusstvo dialoga do stikhii groteska.

Anatole France, a member of the French Academy and a Nobel laureate, was one of the first to introduce the game of thought into the novel. It is the thought that is most appreciated by the hero of the novel, Abbot Jerome Coignard, a librarian and scientist, as if he had stepped out of the paintings of Flemish masters: a worn cassock with traces of frequent darning, glasses broken in a tavern brawl, a torn hat. The plot in the novel is not the main thing, the narrative is built as a series of dialogues, in which the influence of Voltaire's philosophical novels is noticeable. Having undertaken to teach Jacques Tournebroche, the son of a meat seller, Latin and Greek, Abbot Coignard talks to him about the surrounding life, about ancient mythology and history — and brings the art of dialogue to the element of the grotesque.