The poet – a handsome, twenty-two-year-old – teases a philistine, softened thought with a bloody patch of his heart. There is no old tenderness in his soul, but he can turn himself inside out – so that there are only solid lips. And he will be impeccably tender, not a man, but a cloud in … Read more
The action takes place in Southeast Asia a few years after the First World War. The young Frenchman Claude Vannek goes to Siam in search of ancient Khmer bas-reliefs. In Europe, there was a demand for Asian rarities, and Claude hopes to get rich. On the ship he meets Perken – this German or Dane … Read more
February 27, 1815 in Marseille from the next voyage returns three-masted ship “Pharaoh”. Captain LeClair was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of fever in the open sea. The young seaman Edmond Dantes took over the command and executed another last will of the captain: “Pharaoh” comes to the island … Read more
Irwin Welch Nightmares of Stork Marabu Roy Strang is in a coma, but his mind is full of memories. Some are more real – about the life of the Edinburgh outskirts – and passed down in a grotesquely vulgar, stagnant language. Others – the fantasy of hunting the African stork marabu – are told in … Read more
BORIS GODUNOV Opera in four acts (eight scenes) with a prologue (of two paintings) Libretto by M. P. Mussorgsky Characters: Boris Godunov Baritone Fedor Ksenia } Children of Boris Mezzo soprano Soprano Mamma Ksenia Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky Andrey Shchelkalov, Duma clerk Pimen, the chronicler-hermit Impostor under the name of Gregory (in the upbringing of … Read more
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, was born from the Blessed Virgin Mary in the reign of Emperor Augustus (Octavius) in the city of Bethlehem. Augustus ordered the nationwide census to be carried out in all of its empire, to which Palestine belonged at the time. The Jews had the custom of … Read more
A young nobleman Eugene Onegin travels from St. Petersburg to the village to his dying rich uncle, annoyed at the impending boredom. Twenty-four-year-old Eugene received as a child a home education, he was brought up by French tutors. He spoke French fluently, easily danced, knew Latin a little, he knew how to keep silent in … Read more
Sigrid Unsett Christine, daughter of Lawrence The trilogy covers the period from 1310 to 1349, when the plague devastated Europe reached Norway. Father Christine came from a Swedish family, known as the Sons of Lagman. Three generations of this family lived in Norway, but at times they were reminded that they were strangers here. At … Read more
Euripides Hercules The name “Hercules” means “Glory to the goddess Hera”. This name sounded ironic. The goddess Hera was the heavenly queen, the wife of the supreme Zeus the Thunderer. And Hercules was the last of the earthly sons of Zeus: Zeus descended to many mortal women, but after Alkmena, mother of Hercules, – already … Read more
On a hot August day, I happened to be on the hunt. With difficulty I reached the key called “Raspberry Water”, striking from the high bank of Ista, got drunk and lay down in the shade. Not far from me two old men sat and fished the fish. In one of them, thin, small, in … Read more