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While studying the school course of foreign literature, you got acquainted with the works of outstanding writers who put into their creations, as the Roman poet Horace famously said, «the best part of themselves». You had the opportunity to touch not only their personal experience, but also the history of mankind. Antiquity spoke to you from Homer's poems, Dante's tertians conveyed the wisdom of the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare's perfect lines carried the greatness of the spiritual rise of the Renaissance. After all, literature is not just a school subject. Literature is a view of the world, it is the tuning fork by which a civilised person measures the melody of his or her life.

What works of art are you looking forward to reading this year? The golden pages of distant epochs are represented by the tragedy «Faust» by the genius of the German Enlightenment Johann Wolfgang Goethe. You will learn about the peculiarities of modernist prose of the early 20th century on the example of Franz Kafka's The Transfiguration and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

You will have the opportunity to enjoy the masterpieces of European poetry of the first half of the 20th century. You will learn what dystopia is and consider how the problem of war and peace was revealed in the literature of the 20th century, as well as how it reflected the process of searching for the meaning of human existence. And the school course of foreign literature concludes with contemporary literature for young people. I sincerely wish that reading will accompany you even after graduation and always give you benefit and pleasure.