Homeless vagrant Soapy merz on the bench in the park. Winter came, it was necessary to think about housing. He wanted to go to a hospitable prison, where he had enough food and a roof over his head for three months. For several years he spent the winter there. There were charitable institutions, but Sopi … Read more
In French, this novel is called “Great Families,” and it deals mainly with the ancient aristocratic family of La Monnery and the family of immigrants from Austria, the major financiers of the Schudlers. Representatives of these two families came to one of the Parisian maternity hospitals on the occasion of the birth of Jean-Noel Schudler, … Read more
Action 1 Public garden on the banks of the Volga. Phenomenon 1 Kuligin sits on a bench, Kudryash and Shapkin stroll. Kuligin admires the Volga. They hear how in the distance, Dikoi scolds his nephew. Discuss this. Kudryash says that Boris Grigorievich “went to the victim of the Wild”, complains about the humility of the … Read more
The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events in the story. It represents a free chronicle of several days, which are marked for the hero by a severe spiritual crisis. A young writer from Austria, he came … Read more
It is a tragic fare, a grotesque tale, consisting of dozens of oral novels. The author himself tells it this way: “Three friends, who have met at the institute, are living, gradually they are divorced, and two of them will find out that the third has collapsed under the ice near Leningrad, in January, and … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov In the reign of Catherine II, in the town of Soligalich, Kostroma province, the son of a small office clerk Ryzhov was born Alex’s son. Having lost his father at a young age, he was brought up by his mother, who sold pies of his own making on the … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more
In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of the rich widow Kupavina, shamelessly … Read more
Epic poem, translating the legend of Nale and Damayanti from the “Mahabharata” In the middle of India in the mountains of Vindhya is the country of Nishadha, and its ruler was the noble and magnanimous king of Nala. Not far from Nishadha was another country, Vidarbha, and there the daughter of Damayanti, a beauty, was … Read more
The incredible events of this novel, combining features and essays, and utopias, and philosophical satirical stories, occur at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His hero, Baron Cosimo di Rondo, at the age of twelve, protesting against the boiled snails served every day for dinner, climbs onto a tree and decides to spend … Read more