Prologue. London. Soho. Fair. The street singer sings a ballad about the Mackey knife: “The shark has teeth-wedges / All stick out like a show.” And Mackey only has a knife, / And that’s hidden from the eyes. / If the blood spills the shark, / All the water is red. Mackey knife gloves, / … Read more
Sergey Lvovich Pushkin had a son, whom he named in memory of his grandfather Alexander. After the christening in Pushkin’s house on German street in Moscow a modest “kurtag” is arranged: in addition to relatives, the Frenchman Montfort and Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin are invited. A pleasant conversation with refined poetic games is interrupted by the … Read more
The story is from the first person. A narrator named Misail Poloznev, along with his father-architect and sister, Cleopatra, live in a provincial town. Their mother died. Father raised children in severity and, when they became adults, continues to demand complete submission. He succeeds in this with Cleopatra, but Misail came out of submission. He … Read more
“Kochubei is rich and glorious, / His meadows are boundless,” he owns many treasures, but the main wealth of Kochubei is his daughter Maria, who is equal in all Poltava. Maria is not the only beauty, but everyone knows her gentle nature. A lot of suitors are wooing to her, but Maria’s heart is unapproachable. … Read more
Shorty lived in one fantastic city. They were called short men because they were very small. Each short man was a small cucumber. “Babies and babies: Dunno, Znayka, Dr. Pilyulkin, mechanic Vintik and his assistant Shpuntyk, Sakharin Saharinich Syrupchik, hunter Pulka and dog Bulka, artist Tube, musician Guslya, Toropyzhka, Grumbler, Molchun, Donut, Rasteryayka, brothers Avoska … Read more
In a poorly furnished apartment Gavrilovy returned from prison Ivanov, a roommate of the thirty-eight-year-old Frontier. He says that he wants to see his newly born daughter Galya and live a quiet family life. The Gavrilovs do not believe him. Especially irreconcilably opposed to the drunkard Ivanova, the eldest daughter of Grani, eighteen-year-old Nina. She … Read more
This book is not a novel, not a story, not a lyric diary and no memoirs. Chronological connections are replaced here by associative, and the search for beauty – by searching for authenticity, no matter how bad it may seem. This is Moovism. It is a free flight of fantasy, generated by true events. Therefore, … Read more
King Eric is a strange and eccentric figure, he is extremely suspicious and inclined to unexpected decisions. Outraged by the courtyard, he settled in his Stockholm palace a mistress – a soldier’s daughter Karin, who sincerely loves and who already has two children. But at the same time, as befits a monarch, he is building … Read more
In the autumn of 1919 Andrey Startsov came from the city of Mordovia in Semidol to Petrograd. He was mobilized in the army and arrived at the duty station. But instead of the expected dispatch to the front, Andrei is left as a clerk at the headquarters. Soon Rita comes to see him – a … Read more
Max Frish Homo Faber The events unfold in 1957. Walter Faber, a fifty-year-old engineer of Swiss descent, works at UNESCO and is engaged in setting up production equipment in industrially backward countries. At work he has to travel often. He flies from New York to Caracas, but his plane due to malfunctions in the engine … Read more