The source for this play was the story of Aeneas from the third book of the “Aeneid” of Virgil. The action takes place in ancient times in Epirus, an area in the northwest of Greece. After the fall of Troy, the widow of the murdered Hector, Andromache, becomes a prisoner of Pyrrhus, the son of … Read more
Whenever the narrator descended from the village eel to the meadow, he seemed to fall into the world of his distant childhood – in the world of grasses, dragonflies, butterflies and, of course, horses. He often took bread with him and fed up the horses, and if there was no bread with him, he still … Read more
Leonard, a young widow, is faithful to the memory of her deceased husband. She spends whole days praying and reading pious books, not admitting to herself any of the admirers and seekers of her hand. There are a lot of them: the beauty of Leonard is famous throughout Valencia no less than its inaccessibility and … Read more
In Genoa, in a small square in front of the station, a dense crowd of people gathered-workers predominate, but many well-dressed, well-fed people. At the head of the crowd are members of the municipality, the banner of the city, waving heavily silk embroidered with silk, wavers above their heads, and alongside it are the multicolored … Read more
The young knight Albert is going to come to the tournament and asks his servant Ivan to show a helmet. The helmet is penetrated through the past duel with the knight Delormej. It is impossible to put it on. The servant comforts Albert by the fact that he repaid Delorzhu in full, knocking him out … Read more
SD Dovlatov Inostranka Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: the historical circumstances of the Soviet system, which destroyed the best people, forced the father and mother to occupy vacant seats, and by the end of the labor biography they were firmly established in the middle-level nomenclature. … Read more
A small town in the American South. Cotton mill, workers’ houses, peach trees, a church with two stained-glass windows and a main street of yards in a hundred. If you walk along the main street in the August afternoon, then little will be pleased with the eye in this kingdom of boredom and desert. In … Read more
Alexander Pope Stealing curl The work is preceded by the author’s introduction, which is a dedication to a certain Arabella Fermor. Pope warns Arabella that she is too serious about his creation, explaining that it pursues “the only goal: to entertain a few young ladies” endowed with sufficient common sense and sense of humor. The … Read more
Sorokin definitely abuses the reader’s trust: Moho, Samsp, Marog, Bti and Shma have not yet disappeared from memory, but Potiks, Wax, Baldochay, Erokh and Samosya are already on their heels, and this is not the next echelon of the “brothers of Light” – from the monumental “Trilogy of Ice” was left only a thawed puddle, … Read more
“In one of the remote streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, a mezzanine and a crooked balcony, once lived a lady, a widow surrounded by numerous courtyards… From among all her servants the most remarkable person was the janitor Gerasim, a man of twelve heights of growth, built by a hero … Read more