Аннотация: Disraeli. On his way towards the post of Prime Minister. A literary note.
Disraeli. On his way towards the post of Prime Minister. A literary note.
Sergey Sergeevich finished the reading the second part of the book by André Maurois 'Disraeli' ['Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age'].
A great example of how careful you should be about a literary product.
So far, only one mention of the Crimean War has been met. A many mentions about the Disraeli's wife.
Among the lines you can see the image of the author (André Maurois) - a man of a free profession, happy with his fate and wary of 'boring' life in a state structures.
Did not the hero of this book remind to the respected André Maurois of Guy de Maupassant during bureaucratic career - but without an entertainments on the Seine and without a bouquet of further prospects.
The colossal power of the British Empire, the historical processes under an influence of a British parliamentarians, the 'great historical game' are hidden behind a private comments and descriptions.
A strange impression is produced by the events surrounding Disraeli's debt - the debt, by a coincidence of happy circumstances, has been reduced and stabilized.
Sergey Sergeevich thought that the image of Disraeli in the second part of the book (the way to the chair of the Prime Minister) reminiscent (barely noticeable) of the energetic Guy de Maupassant, but caught not in the French bureaucratic machine (with trips to the seaside on weekends, or-with a rest on the Seine), but - into the big mechanism of British parliamentarism (with a rest in his own estate and with a visits to London events).
Sergey Sergeevich sighed. He vaguely suspected that the life of a British parliamentarian - in London, in Britain - was no less interesting than that of a French writer - in Paris, in France...
A question is in accents, in a direction of attention...
Is it possible to call a British parliamentarian of the 19th century a man of a free profession?
Did the life of a successful person of a free profession in the 19th and 20th centuries (in Europe) have such advantages, which can be assumed by reading André Maurois' book about Disraeli?...
In any case, it's necessary to be patient and to read the book in whole. So, go ahead! Page 156...
December 21, 2019 22: 26
Translation from Russian into English: December 21, 2019 23:42.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Дизраэли. На пути к должности премьер-министра. Литературная заметка'.