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MASTERPIECES  OF  WORLD  CULTURE

Poet
W.Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)

Writer
M.Mitchell
(1900 - 1949)

Composer
J.S.Bach
(1685 - 1750)

Artist
S.Dali
(1904 - 1989)

Cul­ture is one of vi­vid forms of hu­man’s va­lues. Speak­ing of cul­ture, first of all, we keep in mind spi­ri­tual va­lues of man­kind. Re­gard­less of what asp­ect of cul­ture we exa­mine, its mean­ing is de­ter­mi­ned by what in­fluence the cul­ture rend­ers on spi­ri­tual world of the indi­vi­dual. By creat­ing a va­riety world of cul­ture, the per­son at the same time crea­tes their own spi­ri­tual ap­pear­ance. Gen­res of art such as poetry, prose, mu­sic, paint­ing, and oth­ers, re­tain in them­sel­ves uni­que crea­tions of the hu­man spi­rit. The most sig­ni­fi­cant sign of cul­ture is its all-­pe­net­rat­ing na­ture into all sphe­res of the so­ciety. Thanks to scien­ti­fic and tech­no­lo­gi­cal prog­ress, mas­ter­pie­ces of world cul­ture are ac­ti­vely po­pu­la­riz­ing all over the world. To­day, real re­vi­val and the ex­pan­sion of mas­ter­pie­ces of world cul­ture are clo­sely asso­cia­ted with the In­ter­net. The grea­test crea­tions of art and in­te­rest­ing in­for­ma­tion about life and work of great pain­ters, poets, auth­ors, and com­po­sers, whose na­mes are writ­ten in gol­den let­ters on the glo­ri­ous pa­ges of world cul­ture his­tory, are found on “Mas­ter­pie­ces of World Cul­ture” web­site. This web­site rep­re­sents spi­ri­tual in­te­rests and pre­fe­ren­ces of a wide range of people.

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AUTHOR  OF  THE  MONTH:   

Jonathan Franzen

Jo­nath­an Franzen (born Au­gust 17, 1959) is an Ame­ri­can no­ve­list and ess­ayist. His third no­vel, The Cor­rec­tions (2001), a sprawl­ing, sa­ti­ri­cal fa­mily drama, drew wi­desp­read cri­ti­cal ac­claim, ear­ned Franzen a Na­tio­nal Book Award, and was a fi­na­list for the 2002 Pu­lit­zer Pr­ize for Fic­tion. His most re­cent no­vel, Free­dom, was pub­lish­ed in Au­gust 2010.
Franzen wri­tes for The New Yor­ker ma­ga­zine. He is also known for his 1996 Har­per's ess­ay "Per­ch­ance to Dream" be­moan­ing the st­ate of li­te­ra­ture, and for the 2001 con­tro­versy sur­round­ing the se­lec­tion of The Cor­rec­tions for Op­rah Winfrey's book club. In 2010, he at­trac­ted fur­ther at­ten­tion while on a vi­sit to Lond­on when a li­te­rary event was stor­med and his spec­tac­les were whis­ked from his face, a ran­som note for $100,000 de­po­si­ted and a po­lic ...  Read More >>

Books by J.Franzen:

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind

Freedom

How to Be Alone

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