The Gulag archipelago is a system of camps spread all over the country. The “aborigines” of this archipelago were people who had gone through arrest and an unjust trial. People were arrested, mostly at night, and half-dressed, confused, did not understand their guilt, thrown into a terrible meat grinder of camps. The history of the … Read more
First-person narrative. The real name of the narrator, provisionally called Jack, is not mentioned in the novel. Jack is on the roof of a New York skyscraper with a gun in his mouth. The arms handle is held by Tyler. Its real purpose is not a skyscraper, but the National Museum, to which the skyscraper … Read more
A. Mariengof Cynics In 1918 Vladimir brought his beloved Olga a bouquet of asters. At this time, they give their loved ones mainly flour and millet, and bags, like corpses, lie under beds of Karelian birch. Tinting her lips with a gold gerlenov pencil, Olga is interested in her boyfriend, can it happen that Moscow … Read more
Alexander Dumas was born in 1802 in the family of General Tom-Alexandre Dumas and Maria-Louise Laboure, who lived in the small town of Ville Cotre. His childhood, adolescence and youth Dumas spent in his hometown, and then went to Paris. Despite poverty, the family still had a good reputation and aristocratic ties, which helped twenty-year-old … Read more
The action takes place at an indefinite time, most reminiscent of the beginning of this century, and the unknown state depicted on its pages is very similar to Italy. It is a novel about time consuming life. Irreversibility of time is the fateful destiny of man, night is the highest point of the tragic tension … Read more
Mr. Jones owns Manor Farm near Willingdon, England. The old boar, the Major gathers at night in a large barn of all the animals that live here. He says that they live in slavery and poverty, because man appropriates the fruits of their labor, and calls for an uprising: one must be freed from man, … Read more
The choir enters the stage and tells the story of Faust: he was born in the German city of Roda, studied in Wittenberg, received his doctorate. “Then, full of daring conceit, / He rushed to forbidden heights / On wings waxes, but the wax melts – / And the sky condemned him to death.” Faustus … Read more
EA Boratynskyi Gypsy The action of the “story” (as the author calls it “Gipsy”) takes place in Moscow. Drunken guests disperse on an early summer morning. The owner, Eletskaya, “with a grimy eye” looks at the traces of “rampant binge” in his once magnificent, but neglected master’s house. Opening the window, Eletskaya “with sincere hatred” … Read more
Lord Almighty from his heavenly throne turned all-seeing eyes on Syria, where the camp was a crusading army. For the sixth year, the warriors of Christ have fought in the East, many cities and kingdoms submitted to it, but the Holy City of Jerusalem was still a stronghold of the infidels. Reading in human hearts … Read more
The last day before Christmas passed. Winter, a clear night arrived. The stars looked. A month stately rose to heaven to shine the good people and the whole world, so that everyone would have fun koljadovat and praise Christ * The freezer is stronger than in the morning; but it was so quiet that the … Read more