Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, real name – Detusch, Destouches, May 27, 1894, Courbevoie – July 1, 1961, Meudon) is a French writer, a doctor by education. Published in 1932 in France, the novel “Journey to the End of the Night” (Voyage au bout de la nuit) and the subsequent novel “Death on Credit” (Mort a … Read more
Moliere Don Giovanni, or the Stone Guest After leaving his young wife, Don Elvira, Don Juan rushed to pursue another captivating beauty. He was not at all embarrassed that in the city where he had arrived on her tracks and where he intended to kidnap her, six months earlier the commander had been killed by … Read more
These letters are a polemic of the author with the Jesuits, the fierce persecutors of the supporters of the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jansen, who opposed the true believers to the rest of the masses formally accepting the church doctrine. In France, the mainstay of Jansenism was the Parisian abbey of Por-Royal, in the … Read more
The life of the common people has always been difficult. Especially in Russia with its unbearable climate. Especially before the abolition of serfdom. The country was ruled by ruthless, greedy landowners, kings who drove into the coffin of the peasants to achieve their goals. The fate of serfs who built the first railway between Moscow … Read more
King of England Uther Pendragon falls in love with Igraine, the wife of the Duke of Cornwall, with whom he is at war. The famous sorcerer and soothsayer Merlin promises to help the king to win Igreina, provided that the child gives it to him. Duke dies in battle, and the barons, wishing to put … Read more
AP Chekhov Three Sisters The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery … Read more
A. Pushkin The Bronze Horseman “On the shore of the desert waves” of the Neva is Peter and thinks of the city that will be built here and which will become Russia’s window to Europe. A hundred years have passed, and the city “from the darkness of the forests, out of the marshland / blossomed … Read more
Giant Bird Exiled Oorfene Deuce, obsessed with a desire to take revenge, settled in his house in the Blue Country, along with a lively bear and a wooden clown. After seven years, spent in dreams to regain power over the Magic country, a huge eagle of Carfax flew into the garden of Urfin. According to … Read more
AP Chekhov Uncle Vanya A dull autumn day. In the garden, in the alley under the old poplar, a table is set for the tea. The samovar has an old nanny Marina. “Eat, Father,” she offers to the tea doctor Astrov. “I do not feel like it,” he replies. Telegin appears, an impoverished landowner, nicknamed … Read more
The subject of the story is the “life-be” of the representatives of the St. Catherine’s Popovka: Protopriest Saveliy Tuberozov, priest Zakhary Benefaktov and deacon Achilla Desnitsyn. Childless Tuberozov keeps all the ardor of the heart and all the energy of youth. Personality of the Benefit – the embodiment of meekness and humility. Deacon Achilles is … Read more