KG Paustovsky Smoke of the Fatherland Having received from the famous Pushkinist Schweitzer the invitation to come to Mikhailovskoye, the Leningrad artist-restorer Nikolai Henrykovich Vermel put aside his urgent work on the frescoes of
Pushkin’s story “The Snowstorm” was written in 1830 in Boldino. The story was the last product of the prosaic cycle “The Tale of Belkin,” published in St. Petersburg in 1831. The story “Snowstorm” is
The action takes place in 1984 in London, the capital of the Runway number one, the province of Oceania. Winston Smith, a short, frail man of thirty-nine, is going to start a diary in
VV Nabokov The Real Life of Sebastian Knight “Sebastian Knight was born on December 31, 1899 in the former capital of my fatherland” – this is the first phrase of the book. Her younger
Zhenya Lyuwers was born and grew up in Perm. In the summer they lived on the banks of the Kama River at the dacha. One day, waking up in the middle of the night,
The narrative is conducted on behalf of a certain N. N. He was then at the age of 25, he had just “broken free” and went abroad not so much to continue his education
If the military ranks were appropriated to the birds, then this goose should have been given to the admiral. All he had was an admiral: a stance, a gait, and a tone, as he
SA Esenin Anna Snegina The action takes place on the Ryazan land in the period from the spring of 1917 to 1923. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the author-poet Sergei Yesenin; The
A well-known writer R. after a three-day trip to the mountains returns to Vienna and, looking at the number in the newspaper, recalls that on this day he turns forty-one. After reading the accumulated
One of the features of the composition of the novel is the so-called “framework narrative”. The general plot canvas serves as a frame for numerous false novels. However, in the novel of Maturin, the