Конец Вавилона

Giĭom Apolliner (1890-1918) - ne tolʹko velikiĭ frant͡suzskiĭ poėt, no i blesti͡ashchiĭ prozaik, avtor knig "Gnii͡ushchiĭ charodeĭ", "Eresiarkh i K°", "Konet͡s Vavilona" i dr., a takzhe mnogikh rasskazov, "skazok" i istoriĭ, sokhranivshikhsi͡a v rukopisi͡akh ili razbrosannykh po zhurnalam. Sam Apolliner neizmenno podcherkival, chto schitaet dli͡a sebi͡a prozu ne menee znachimoĭ, chem poėzii͡a.Roman "Konet͡s Vavilona", vpervye perevedennyĭ na russkiĭ i͡azyk, risuet kartiny poslednikh sobytiĭ ėpokhi istoricheskogo Vavilona, pokazannykh cherez sudʹby personazheĭ, zaimstvovannykh avtorom iz okruzhai͡ushcheĭ ego deĭstvitelʹnosti. Kritiki ne raz podcherkivali provokat͡sionnostʹ i skandalʹnostʹ "Kont͡sa Vavilona", chto, razumeetsi͡a, privlekaet dopolnitelʹnoe vnimanie k ėtomu proizvedenii͡u.

Guillaume Apollinaire (1890-1918) - not only a great French poet, but also a brilliant prose writer, author of the books "The Rotting Wizard", "The Heresiarch and Co.", "The End of Babylon", etc., as well as many short stories, "fairy tales" and stories preserved in manuscripts or scattered in magazines. Apollinaire himself always stressed that he considered prose to be no less important than poetry.The novel "The End of Babylon", first translated into Russian, draws pictures of the last events of the era of historical Babylon, shown through the fate of characters borrowed by the author from the surrounding reality. Critics have repeatedly emphasized the provocativeness and scandalousness of "The End of Babylon", which, of course, attracts additional attention to this work.