Eugene Xu Paris mysteries Mid-30’s. the last century, the slums of Paris, where gangsters and murderers are leading their black businesses, but honest poor people are struggling for existence. Prince of Gerolstein Rodolphe, a thirty-seven-year-old handsome man with “big yellowish brown eyes” who perfectly knows the methods of pugilism, arrives in Paris with the aim … Read more
IV Goethe The Suffering of the Young Werther It is this genre, characteristic of the literature of the 18th century, that Goethe chooses for his work, and the action takes place in one of the small German towns in the late 18th century. The novel consists of two parts – these are the letters of … Read more
The Marquis de Sade Justine, or the Unhappy Fate of Virtue. “People inexperienced in the feat of virtue may find it advantageous for them to surrender to vice instead of resisting it.” Therefore, “it is necessary to imagine the power of examples of unhappy virtue,” capable of leading to the good “a spoiled soul, if … Read more
Charlotte Aissé (circa 1693, Circassia – March 13, 1733, Paris) is a French writer, known primarily for her correspondence, published under the title “Letters to Mrs. Calandrini” (Lettres de mademoiselle Aissé a madame Calandrini). The origin is not entirely reliable: she called herself the daughter of the Circassian (probably Adyghe) prince, whose palace was plundered … Read more
In Athens, the most famous philosopher was Socrates. For his philosophy, he then paid with his life: he was brought to trial and executed precisely because he had questioned too much, deconstructing manners and thereby weakened the state. But before that it was still far: first it was only brought out in a comedy. At … Read more
“Darkened from the dust the blue southern sky is dull… The port is full of bustle and confusion, people seem to be insignificant in this noise, created by them enslaved and depersonalized them.” A string of stevedores, carrying thousands of poods of grain in order to earn a few pounds of bread, were ridiculous and … Read more
The action of this novel anti-utopia takes place in a fictional World State. There is a 632-year stability era, the Era Ford. Ford, who created the world’s largest automobile company in the early twentieth century, is revered in the World State for God. It is called “Our Lord Ford”. In the state this is ruled … Read more
The saga tells the story of eight generations of an Icelandic family. The central place is reserved for the seventh generation: the events connected with it took place at the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 11th century. Ketil Ploskonosy occupied a high position in Norway. When King Harald the Fair-haired reached … Read more
Sergei Petrovich – a third-year student of the natural faculty. He is ugly, ugly, clumsy, ordinary. He does not succeed in romances with women, he has no close friends, although he craves for love and friendship with all his heart. Sergei Petrovich lives with a student Novikov, a talented, intelligent and generous man. Under the … Read more
The events described unfold on the Italian-Austrian front in 1915-1918. Coming from America – Frederick Henry – volunteered for the army, taking the position of lieutenant of the sanitary troops in the Italian regiment. Sanitary units stand in the city on Plavna, awaiting an offensive and shorting time with various entertainments. At the same time, … Read more