A subject book exhibition "The greatest literary characters” runs in the National Library of Belarus (third floor, circular hall) from January 12 to February 23.
During its centuries-old history, fiction has gathered a multitude of literary characters. Though not all of them are equivalent, the most outstanding ones always incarnate the national character.
Each literary character is not simply individuality, but also an artistic generalization of human virtues revealed by the author; the literary character bears the mark of the writer’s reflection about the world and the human. The names of most of such types and characters became common.
Medea and Antigone, Hamlet and Faust, Don Quixote and Oliver Twist, Madame Bovary and Natasha Rostova, Raskolnikov and Oblomov, the two-faced Dorian Gray and the ambitious Julien Sorel, the hero Taras Bulba and the “vague” Chichikov, the wise Santiago and the brave soldier Vasily Tyorkin…
The great literary characters appear in our world to stay here forever, to create and inspire.
The National Library of Belarus starts the new year 2011 with a subject book exhibition “The greatest literary characters” whose purpose is to acquaint readers with the famous literary charters created by the great writers of the world.
The exhibits are classified in alphabetical order at four levels: country-author-book-character. The exposition comprises more than 400 editions published in different times and covers the most part of the world literature guiding the reader through the universe of multiple literary characters who became part of cultural perception of humanity.
Sadly, not all characters, books or writers can be presented at the exhibition. However, even such a small exposition allows to determine the basic ideas brought to our world by some literary characters, and to trace their development in history and in human minds.
The exhibition will be interesting to schoolchildren and teachers, students and professors, and all literature lovers.
Contact phone numbers: (+375-17) 293-28-86.
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