The tales of ME Saltykov-Shchedrin, written primarily in the eighties of the XIX century (they are often called political), became a satire on the existing order in Russia. The description of the position of the Russian peasant is devoted to the work “Konyaga”, the feature of which is that the author after the image of … Read more
An experienced field on which a paradoxical and contradictory current of one human life unfolds-the life of an indigent American in Paris at the turn of the 1920s-1930s-becomes, in essence, the entire western civilization of the twentieth century engulfed in a deadly crisis. With Henry, the hero of the book, we first encounter in cheap … Read more
O. de Balzac Shagreen leather I. The Talisman At the end of October, a young man entered the Palais Royal building – Rafael de Valantin, in whose eyes the players noticed some terrible secret, his features expressed the impassiveness of a suicide and a thousand deceived hopes. Los Valentine lost the last Napoleon, and in … Read more
Manor in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, after marrying and deciding to settle down and take up farming, a wizard settled. He is in love with his wife and promises to live like everyone else, but the soul asks for something magical, and the owner of the estate is unable to keep from “pranks.” And now … Read more
The commander of the partisan detachment, Levinson, orders the orderly Morozka to take the package to another detachment. Frost does not want to go, he suggests sending someone else; Levinson quietly orders the orderly to surrender their weapons and go to all four sides. Morozka, having returned to her senses, takes the letter and goes … Read more
Bhavabhuti The last acts of the Rama Piece in verse and prose, based on the contents of the last book of the “Ramayana” After freeing Sita from imprisonment in Lanka and killing her kidnapper of the demon king Ravana, Rama and his wife return to Ayodhya, where the days of their life are now serene … Read more
S. Topelius The Man and the Elephant In the old castle of Abo (Finland), lived an old house. He was only friends with the house chapel of the cathedral and the old gatekeeper of the castle, Matts Mursten, whom he met when he, while still a boy, climbed into the basement for cartridges, fell into … Read more
In one village there lives a peasant. He has three sons: the elder Danilo clever, the average Gavrilo “and so, and syak,” the youngest Ivan is a fool. Brothers make a living by growing wheat, transporting it to the capital and selling it there. Suddenly a misfortune happens: someone starts trampling crops at night. The … Read more
The poem, borrowing one of the plots of the “Mahabharata” In Dvaraka, the capital of the Yadav family, is the divine sage Narada and transmits to Krishna, the leader of the Yadavas and the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu, the message from the king of the gods of Indra, with a request to crack … Read more
VO Pelevin The Ninth Dream of Vera Pavlovna The story recalls a detailed review of “What to do?” Chernyshevsky. It was a little late, though, a review, but it was done famously, masterfully. The heroine in the position of a toilet cleaner, who talks about philosophical matters and seeks to change the world (!) Is … Read more