Books that make you think about eternal truths

Montaigne said that there would not be a wind blowing into the sail of one who did not decide which port he would sail to. This figurative expression can be attributed to the reader drowning in the ocean of good publications, and not knowing what to read. It is difficult to guess which of them will enter the category of "unforgettable books that make you think". As a rule, they are read and re-read, they attract the reader by being an inexhaustible source of emotions and knowledge.

Looking through the ratings of publications, both Russian and foreign, which includes books that make you think, it is better to choose from those that lead them. Each of them is not just the story of the main characters, it is a whole unique world created by the writer in order to leave readers, contemporaries and descendants with a unique message expressed in the idea and plot of the work with the help of special literary means and a system of artistic images. Perhaps this article will help the inquisitive reader make a worthy choice.

In the list, which includes books that make you think, modern Russian-language readers have included works by Mikhail Bulgakov. His main novel "Master and Margarita" (1929 - 1940) about love, responsibility and sacrificial ministry often tops the list of Russian ratings. Bulgakov's book makes you see, looking around, how people live vainly and pointlessly. But at the same time they dared to threaten the great plan, they are able to change a lot - both their lives and the destinies of others. The most important thing is to stand up against temptation, do not bow your head in front of you or others, because even because of your weakness you can crucify the innocent. Nothing can be higher than serving and upholding the truth. Light, and not only rest, is given to man only for this. That's why the original manuscripts do not burn, but true sacrificial love is capable of anything, even the impossible.

The first novel, created in 1927 by a duet of writers - I.Ilf and E.Petrov, after the first magazine publication was divided into quotations, repeating the fate of A.Griboedov's play. The main characters are also two, as well as the authors. During the search for the treasures of Vorobyaninov's mother-in-law, Ostap Bender and he had to embark on a cycle of various adventures, from the organization of the secret "Union of the sword and plow", the creation of the imperishable canvas "The Sower" to the great dream of the Interplanetary Chess Congress in Bolshikh Vasiuky. Why is this novel rogue in the genre introduced by readers into the list, which includes books that make you think?

There is no positive hero in it. But against the backdrop of microscopic thieves plankton, ordinary people, vulgar crocheters and drunkards, the title character - a charming scoundrel and a talented adventurer - seems like a gigantic positive figure. His humor and enterprise cause sympathy.

Bender's death at the hands of the brutal Vorobyaninov at the very threshold of the fulfillment of such a long-awaited imaginary dream upsets the reader. But, according to the authors, if the heroes still found diamonds, happiness would not have come anyway, the realized dream would bring Bender only emptiness and depression. Treasures - a small, insignificant goal in the country of victorious socialism, its achievement would not bring anything good to the owners. Whether it's the House of Culture for local railway workers, built on the diamonds of Madame Petuhova.

The philosophical children's fairy tale for adults, written in 1942 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a military pilot with the poet's soul, can easily be added to the list, which includes books that make you think. Writer with the help of allegories, symbols, complex subtext suggests the reader to reconsider the attitude to childhood - the period of spiritual development of the child. He calls on the earthlings for a careful attitude: to close people - from small to adults, to the planet, to one's own soul. The meaning is clothed in wise hints, aphorisms, magical images, imperceptible transitions from humor to philosophical reasoning and sad memories of the events of one's own childhood. The narrative is accompanied by subtle, elegant drawings, famous as much as the text.

Reader! Every day new items appear on the shelves of the store - books that might make you see what is important today, about which no one has written or thought about before. Do not miss!