Every age, every generation has its own priority literary trend, which has its own talents and, of course, the fans. But not all of the writers who consider themselves to be talented, really are. Which of them is really talented, it will become clear, not when their books are bought today with a bang (possibly a momentary fame or a good ad campaign) and not when they could have simply matured ideologically, according to today's era, the works are textbook for students in middle school, which learn a few generations. It is clear will have you truly significant contribution to the literature, or find a literature your face worthy representative of scribes only when the many, many years can you be called a classic writer, and every intelligent person would consider an honor to see myself in your library '> Work>. Only then will we say with confidence that you really have made a significant contribution to this art form as literature. Time not only heals, but putting everything in its place.

Who would have thought that Bulgakov, for example, living almost in poverty, surviving on wages of the district doctor, and then, laboring in a small newspaper reporter just after his death would be really popular and widely read author. Although there is no. There was also a leading figure in this national, and indeed, world literature, his takeoff. After running his play set in the Moscow Art Theater. But the glory and the big fees flew a little too quickly and quietly. Bulgakov died unappreciated genius in close communal apartment.

Literature, like any other art form, has always reflected the era in which they lived, representatives of the kind of creativity. Books written during the Renaissance, or rebirth, pierced spirit of humanism. It was at that time (from 14 to 16 century), originated in France and was developing rapidly throughout the world the idea that the man – the crown of creation and that's enough to belittle and intimidate the church and feudalism. Humanism encouraged person to disclose his creativity, because that God created man in His own image and likeness. What else can we be like our Creator, but the fact that they themselves become the creators, including the creators of their own happiness. In Renaissance literature, one can distinguish several genres. The most popular genre was the genre of short stories. As for poetry, the sonnet became popular here (stanza, consisting of fourteen lines, with a characteristic rhyme). Growing rapidly, with the help of Shakespeare and Lope de Vega's plays. It is from the Renaissance starts the genre of literary work as journalism and philosophical works. Era Communism and socialism developed in the former Soviet Union expressed in the works devoted to the socialist writers of the Communist Party. In these works, pronounced cult of Lenin Lenin and his follower – Stalin. That's literary works are succinctly and honestly describe to us the past.