- •Сборник текстов для чтения, перевода и реферирования
- •Введение
- •Part I. Texts for reading
- •1.1. Superhero
- •1. 2. Don’t miss concert in conservatoire
- •1. 3. Information for visitors of the national gallery in london
- •1. 4. Weekly rep
- •1. 5. British tv
- •1. 6. Folk music
- •1. 7. Comic books
- •1. 8. How a hit song is written
- •1. 9. A london pantomime
- •1. 10. Abstract art
- •1. 11. Patricia kaas
- •1. 12. My favourite ballet
- •1. 13. Disneyland park
- •1. 14. Do you like music?
- •1. 15. Egyptian arts
- •1. 16. Freddie mercury
- •1. 17. Horror films
- •1. 18. Interview with a musician
- •1. 19. Tom hanks
- •1. 20. Jazz – a new era in music
- •1. 21. London’s museums
- •1. 22. Music awards
- •1. 23. Progressive rock
- •1. 24. Hippies and skinheads
- •1. 25. Rock music
- •1.26. Andersen. Traveller and theatre lover
- •1.27. Henry wood promenade concerts
- •1.28. Holding meetings
- •1.29. Punk rock is 30 years old
- •1.30. The guitar
- •1.31. Services for school. The national gallery, london
- •1.32. The wallace collection
- •1.33. Clowning
- •1.34. Music and musicians. Punk.
- •1.35. Theatre superstitions
- •1.36. Reggae
- •1.37. The british museum
- •1.38. The american greats
- •1.39. Summer camps in the united states
- •1.40. Compositions by bach’s second son performed in moscow
- •1.41. The russian museum
- •1.42. Rachmaninov
- •1.43. Gainsborough and music
- •1.44. Britain's unique puppet theatre
- •1.45. “Cats”
- •1.46. "The picture of dorian gray"
- •1.47. Lord of the rings
- •1.48. Benjamin britten
- •1. 49. Al pacino
- •1. 50. Can you think of a day without music?
- •1. 51. Chicago bluesman comes to moscow
- •1. 52. The globe theatre
- •1. 53. Chopin in britain
- •1. 54. Covent garden
- •1. 55. Diana ross
- •1. 56. "Oklahoma!"
- •1.57. Tarkovsky: a new look
- •Part II. Texts for rendering
- •2. 1. A miracle on the stage
- •2. 2. ‘’ Beauty and the beast'’ (1946)
- •2. 4. Valentin serov
- •2.5. Blockbuster films
- •2 .6. Charlie chaplin – early years
- •2. 7. English on the stage
- •2. 8. Harry porter
- •2. 9. Hippies
- •2. 10. Hollywood
- •2. 11. Kevin costner
- •12. Leonardo DiCaprio
- •2. 13. Libraries
- •2. 14. Mozart
- •2.15. Madam tussaud's
- •2. 16. Niccolo paganini - virtuoso or devil?
- •2.17. Russian winter in london
- •2.18. The birth of the "seventh art"
- •2.19. The little tramp
- •2. 20. Tretyakov gallery
- •2. 21. Television in modern life
- •2. 22. Types of music
- •2. 23. Walt disney's world
- •2. 43. Young musician of the year
- •Оглавление
- •Progressive rock...................................................................................................................................
- •The american greats............................................................................................................................
- •Summer camps in the united states.............................................................................................
1.57. Tarkovsky: a new look
Read the article and say why it’s called so.
Tarkovsky the film director never made it a point to be understandable to everyone. Great popularity always put him on his guard, if not frightened. Tarkovsky believed the mass character of a work of art to be the first symptom of falsehood and the choice of a wrong path.
Nikolai Boldyrev's book is about the life trajectory of an artist seeking to comprehend the essence of man and his unpredictable nature, to discover a point of contact between man and the sacrosanct, and to help man to find sanctity within himself. The author is a well-known poet, a translator of Rilke, Kafka, and Trakl; a researcher of Zen Buddhism and one of the best Russian orientalists. This is not his first book about Tarkovsky. His Stalker, or The Works and Days of Andrei Tarkovsky was the first valuable biography of the film director.
In his works, Nikolai Boldyrev sets out to determine the extent of Zen's impact on Russian and European culture. The present book is a fresh attempt to look at Tarkovsky's creations through the prism of oriental philosophy. Having grasped the spiritual essence of Tarkovsky's films, Boldyrev makes quite unexpected discoveries, comparing the famous Russian melancholy with Zen contemplativeness, and Christian humility with oriental "non-acting." Tarkovsky's precepts amazingly combine in themselves inherent Russian and Eastern religiosity, which once again makes us ponder over the unity of world cultures.
The book is based on vast documentary material - letters, interviews and diaries of the film director. It takes into account all the diverse viewpoints on Tarkovsky's life and works. This enables Boldyrev to portray him as objectively as possible, and at the same time recreate his unique creative quests.
A special charm is lent to the book by verses of the film director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky, an extraordinary poet who has gone down in the history of Russian and world literature. He is also the subject of many memoirs.
(From “Moscow News”, abridged)
Exercise
True or false:
Tarkovsky never made it a point to be understandable to everyone.
He liked to be popular.
This is the first bookb of this author about Tarkovsky.
The present book is a fresh attempt to look at Tarkovsky's creations through the prism of oriental philosophy.
The book is based on vast documentary material - letters, interviews and diaries of the film director.
Part II. Texts for rendering
2. 1. A miracle on the stage
Read the text and say what happened to the famous actor.
David Garrick, the famous English actor of the !8th century, began his stage career very early. At the age of eighteen he was already a member of a company which toured the south of England every summer.
One evening in July the company arrived at the little town of B, and staged there a tragedy which was based on an episode of the Punic wars. It was performed in an open-air theatre. At the beginning of the second act there was a scene showing a battle-field. Bodies of three or four dead men lay here and there. Garrick played the part of one of those bodies. After the interval between the first and second acts the curtain went up. Garrick lay as still as possible, trying to look like a real dead body. An actor playing the part of a Roman general came forward and began to recite a monologue.
Suddenly Garrick heard a mosquito buzzing near his ear. Then came another. The next moment several mosquitoes began to sting him in the face and in the leg. Garrick wanted very much to scratch himself. But how can a dead body move?
"Look at that young man," the general went on with his monologue. "Only a few hours ago he was healthy and full of life ... and there he lies now—a dead body! Only a miracle can bring him back to life!"
Exactly at that moment Garrick began to scratch himeslf here and there. Trying to remain serious, the general was thinking hard what to say next. He certainly could not continue his monologue.
"The gods have heard me!" he cried out at last. "The miracle has happened!"
The audience burst into laughter, but Garrick had no wish to laugh. He was too worried about his future stage career. In any case, that evening he decided never again to play a dead body in summer when there are so many mosquitoes around.
Exercise
Answer the questions:
1.What is the main idea of the story?
2.What parts can you divide the story into?
3. Do you remember funny moments that took place during the performance?