Two inherits, or Don Quixote. Adventurer’s debut: Prosper Merim

Prosper Merim (1803-1870) is primarily known for his novels, but he was also a novelist, playwright and gained fame in the field of history and archeology. This book includes his plays that have never been previously published in Russian – “Two inherits, or Don Quixote” (1850) and “The Debut of the Adventurer” (1853). In the center of the first, there is a traditional conflict associated with profitable marriage and receiving an inheritance, but Merim beats it in a very unusual manner, bringing it to the scene of modern Don Quixote and weaved in the play by irony and drama. The plot of the “adventurer debut” is based on historical events that took place in Russia in the Time of Troubles: Merima shares the fruits of his scientific research with the reader and tells who, from his point of view, was the False Dmitry, from which environment the impostor came out and how the idea of ​​the heir to the heir who died in the Uglich has matured in his head.

Author
Merim Prosper
Translator
Yasnov Mikhail Davidovich
Publisher
Text, 2014
Series
Square