Leonardo Sasha Each action takes place in post-war Italy, in a small Sicilian town. Apothecary Manno receives an anonymous letter, where he is threatened with death, without going into an explanation of the reasons. Friends of the pharmacist – Don Luigi Corvaya, Pecorilla’s notary, Laurent’s teacher, Rosello’s lawyer, Dr. Rosho – consider the anonymous letter … Read more
Ignat Gordeyev all his life dreamed of his son, but his wife, with an enviable regularity, gave birth to his daughters. Unfortunately, not one little girl has not lived up to three years. Soon, after the children, Ignat’s wife went to the next world. The man did not grieve for a long time and got … Read more
The action takes place on the well known Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, and not even on the whole island, but in the village alone on its outskirts. There lived two shepherds, one co-op, another sheep-breeder, one slave, another free. Once, he saw: a goat feeds his abandoned child – a boy, … Read more
AP Platonov The Juvenile Sea Five days a person goes to the depths of the south-eastern steppe of the Soviet Union. On the way, he presents himself as a locomotive engineer, a geologist-spy, or “another organized professional being, just to occupy his head with an uninterrupted thought and distract the longing from the heart” and … Read more
AV Sukhovo-Kobylin Tarelkin’s death Tarelkin did not get a penny from his chief Varvavin – not only for the Muromsky case, but also for many subsequent cases. However, he continued to live on a broad foot. And now his situation is not disastrous, but catastrophic. Countless lenders are taking them by the throat. He can … Read more
A platoon of Soviet intelligence officers entered the village. It was an ordinary western Ukrainian village. The commander of scouts Lieutenant Travkin thought about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he has only twelve left. The rest have just been recruited, and what they will be in the case is unknown. And ahead … Read more
Meursault, a small French official, resident of the Algerian suburb, receives news of the death of his mother. Three years ago, being unable to support her on his modest salary, he placed her in an almshouse. After receiving a two-week vacation, Merso on the same day goes to the funeral. After a brief conversation with … Read more
Aeschylus Prometheus chained With the titan Prometheus, the benefactor of mankind, we already met in the poem of Hesiod “Theogony”. There he is an intelligent cunning, who arranges the sharing of sacrificial bull meat between people and gods so that the best part gets to people’s food. And then, when the angry Zeus does not … Read more
The narrator heard these stories on the seashore in Bessarabia, from old Izergil. The moon rose, and across the steppe came shadows from the running clouds. The old woman said that she saw Larra, who turned into a shadow, and told this tale. Many years ago, in a generous country “lived a mighty tribe of … Read more
In the house of Ivan Petrovich Shuisky, in the presence of many clerics and some boyars, they decide to divorce Fyodor Ioannovich with the Tsarina, Godunova’s sister, thanks to whom, by all accounts, Boris is holding. They make a paper, where, remembering the barrenness of the queen and the young Demetrius, they ask the king … Read more