At the beginning of Wandemähre, a crowd of recruits came from Fougères to Mayenne. Four years ago these places were covered by the royalist rebellion, and Fougeres was always considered one of the most dangerous of its foci. That is why the commander of the half-brigade Hulot decided to make a set as soon as … Read more
Jean-Jacques Russo Julia, or New Eloise “I observed the customs of my time and published these letters,” the author writes in the “Preface” to a real philosophical and lyrical novel. A small Swiss town. Educated and sensitive raznochinets Saint-Pre, like Abelard, falls in love with his apprentice Julia, the daughter of Baron d’Etange. And although … Read more
Friedrich Schiller Rogues The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian translation reads: “What medicines do not heal, heals iron, which does not heal iron, heals fire.” The plot is based on … Read more
FN Gorenshtein The Psalm Roman consists of five parts – each one tells of one of the plagues of the Lord that struck the earth, as the prophet Ezekiel prophesied. Part one – “The Parable of the Lost Brother” – tells of the second execution – the famine. The scene of action is hungry Ukraine … Read more
The early stories of Kazakov remained in the circle of permissive cordiality. The most telling story is “Blue and Green” (1956). Kazakov said that he wrote it “on behalf of that Arbat boy”, as he himself was in those years. Book descriptions of book passions of the Moscow tenth-grader, to whom the first love came. … Read more
Genius works always push foreheads supporters of different opinions, forcing the reader to support and hate one of the parties. This is how Rye Bradbury’s story “Rust” works, the summary of which is incapable of giving passages without quotes. The author acts as an omniscient but cold-blooded witness to the dialogue between the two military … Read more
Stefan Zweig Impatience of the heart In 1938, the narrator accidentally met the knight of the Order of Maria Theresa Anton Hofmiller, who told him about what happened to him a quarter of a century ago when he was twenty-five years old. The narrator wrote down his story, changing only the names in it and … Read more
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Well-intentioned speeches In the chapter “For the reader”, the author is presented as a frontier man shaking hands with representatives of all parties and camps. His acquaintances are darkness-darkening, but they have nothing to look for, except “good intentions,” it would be good to understand them. Let them hate each other, but … Read more
December 24, the house of the Stahlbaum Advisor of Medicine. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and the children – Fritz and Marie – are guessing what this time they will be presented as a gift by an inventor and godfather, a senior court adviser Drosselmeyer, who often repaired watches in the house of Stalbaums. … Read more
Periander was the tyrant of Corinth. With him, as the Corinthians say (and this story is also confirmed by the lesbians), the greatest miracle happened in life. Arion of Mephimna was carried out on a dolphin from the sea at Tenar. It was an incomparable cifar of its time and, as far as I know, … Read more