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 the Trinity Church in Novgorod, and together with his partner and pupil Pakhomov went to Schweitzer, who rummaged in the Mikhailovsky … Read more
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 written in the traditions of the literary realism direction. The events of the work cover a period of time from 1811 … Read more
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 an old thick notebook recently bought in a junk shop. If the diary is found, Winston is waiting for death or … Read more
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 brother Knight, pronounced in the novel by the letter “V.”, pronounces it. Sebastian Knight, the famous writer, a native of Russia, … Read more
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, Zhenya was frightened by the lights and sounds on the other side of the river and burst into tears. Father, entering … Read more
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 as to see the world. Traveling without a goal and plan, he observed people, made acquaintances, not including the need to … Read more
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 talked to other village geese. He walked important, pondering every step. When the goose on the shallows rose to its full … Read more
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 image of “epic” events is transmitted through the attitude of the lyric hero towards them. In the first chapter we are … Read more
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 mail, he puts aside a thick letter written in unfamiliar handwriting. A little later, comfortably sitting in a chair and lighting … Read more
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 attentive reader will catch the absolute sequence of the general plot, in which the author does not for one moment lose … Read more