In a provincial town, a young merchant of Bavarian kvass meets a walking woman in the evening. She, drunk, stands in a puddle and stomps her feet, sprinkling mud like children. The trader leads her to her house; she agrees to go with him, thinking that he is her client. “House” is a basement hole … Read more
The action takes place in a provincial town. Victor Alexandrovich Zilov wakes up a phone call. With difficulty waking up, he picks up the phone, but there is silence. He slowly gets up, touching his jaw, opens the window, it’s raining outside. Zilov drinks beer and with a bottle in his hands begins fizzaryadku. Again … Read more
August 1931. From the Mexican port of Veracruz the German passenger steamer “Vera” sails, which in mid-September is due to arrive in Bremerhaven. From the torn by the political passions of Mexico, the ship follows to Germany, where national socialism raises its head. The diverse passenger community – Germans, Swiss, Spanish, Cubans, Americans – together … Read more
The first action. Natasha sits on the bank of the Dnieper in deep thoughtfulness. She is troubled by her heart, and it is not easy for her to listen to the instructions of her father – the old Miller. For several days the Prince, her lover, has not come to Natasha. The miller teaches her … Read more
The article in the article “The Ray of Light in the Dark Kingdom” is about the work of Ostrovsky “The Thunderstorm”, which undoubtedly became a classic in Russian literature. In the first part, the author speaks of a deep understanding of the life of the Russian people by Ostrovsky himself. Further he tries to conduct … Read more
The name of the work is symbolic: the raven is a bird, pecking out the eyes and the brain, that is, blinding and depriving the mind. We learn about such love from the story of the main character. So, the rejected lover dreams a dream. He turns out to be alone at night in a … Read more
VG Korolenko Son of Makar Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile (the winter of 1883), the story was inspired by the real impressions of the young writer (he lived with peasant Zakhar Tsykunov, who became the prototype of Makar). But, … Read more
Valya is a young girl who works in a store on one of the construction sites of the distant Irkutsk. Vale is twenty-five and she’s a cashier. Merry and frivolous, she does not think much about how to behave, for which she deserved what everyone in the district calls her Valka – cheap. Valya’s ally … Read more
The end of XIX century. Countryside in Russia. Mironositskoe village. Veterinarian Ivan Ivanych Chimsh-Himalayan and teacher of the grammar school Burkin, having spent the whole day, are staying for the night in the barn of the village elder. Burkin tells Ivan Ivanych the story of the teacher of the Greek language Belikov, whom they taught … Read more
Before the court investigator was a very skinny peasant. In his eyes, a sullen severity could be seen from behind thick brows. His hair was tangled and uncombed, which gave him a spider’s harshness. “Denis Grigoriev, come here and answer my questions,” the investigator tells him. – On the 7th of July this year the … Read more
Mr. Jones owns the Manor farm near the town of Willingdon in 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 … Read more
In the old castle of Abo 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 a blockage and was released by the house-keeper. … Read more
Pascal says: “All the rules of decent behavior have long been known, stopping for small – for the ability to use them.” Any principle is contradictory, any term is interpreted in different ways. But, having comprehended the person, it is possible to comprehend all. The first book. ABOUT THE MIND AT ALL Some mix the … Read more
“The Adventures of Perigrin Piklyon” – the second of three novels that brought glory to Smollet – reveals the features inherent in the “novel of upbringing”, and the novel is enlightening, and satirical, and pamphlet pamphlet. In part, we can talk about the influence of “sentimentalists.” His hero passes in front of us a truly … Read more
G. Hauptmann Before sunset The action takes place after the First World War in a large German city. In the mansion of the seventy-year-old Matthias Clausen, a sleek gentleman, the secret commerce of an adviser, his anniversary is celebrated. There is a festive atmosphere in the house, many guests came. The Adviser by right enjoys … Read more
At the beginning of the narrative the narrator warns the reader that in his notes he will not adhere to any rules for creating a literary work, he will not observe the laws of the genre and adhere to the chronology. Tristram Shandy was born on November 5, 1718, but his misadventures, according to his … Read more
At the age of eight, Tan Ge was orphaned. He was brought up by Zhang Wen, an artisan. I regretted the orphan. The beauty of the girl admired the manager of the merry establishment of the dinger, Ding Wanqing. He became an artisan to court, to promise money. She sent gifts. And he yielded. In … Read more
G. Nizami Khosrov and Shirin The truth of this legend is confirmed by the Bisutun rock with carved images on it, the ruins of Medaina, the traces of the milk brook, the passion of the unfortunate Farhad, the rumor about the ten-stringed Barbad’s sause… In ancient Iran, not yet illuminated by the light of Islam, … Read more
In Denmark, once ruled the king of the glorious kind of Skilding named Hrodgar. He was particularly fortunate in wars with neighbors and, having accumulated great wealth, decided to perpetuate the memory of himself and his government. He decided to build a magnificent banquet hall for the royal squad. Hrodgar did not spare neither the … Read more
On July 20, 1714, the most beautiful bridge in Peru collapsed, dropping five travelers into the abyss. The catastrophe struck Peruvians tremendously: the bridge of King Louis of Saint saw something unshakable, existing forever. But although everything was shocked, only one man, Brother Uniiper, a red-haired Franciscan monk who happened to be a witness of … Read more
Marcel Proust In search of lost time Towards Svanu Time eludes a brief moment between sleep and awakening. Within a few seconds, the narrator Marcel seems to have turned into what he read the day before. The mind is determined to locate the sleeping room. Is this the grandfather’s house in Combra, and Marcel fell … Read more
Senka Shaly decided to change his life. Enough. To him already soon twenty-six – all youth in the sea remained. In the army in the navy he served, demobilized, decided before returning home to earn extra money in the sea, and so he remained on the Atlantic as a “seagull” sailor. His marine life was … Read more
It was arranged, especially the daughter-in-law – after all she did not see anything further than her nose! Seijuro decided to steal ONATSu and flee with her to Kyoto, they hurried to seize the boat, sailing away before sunset. They only sailed in a boat full of all the people-there was a salesman, a soothsayer, … Read more
IV Goethe Faust The tragedy is opened with three introductory texts. The first is a lyrical dedication to friends of youth – those with whom the author was associated in the beginning of work on “Faust” and who has already died or is in the distance. “I again remember everyone who lived that radiant at … Read more
Longren, a closed and unsociable man, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow during a cruel storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far into the sea. The only witness to what was … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the XX century. Nine-year-old Philip Carey remains an orphan, and he is sent for education to his uncle-priest in Blackstable. The priest does not feel affection for his nephew, but in his house Philip finds many books that help him forget about loneliness. At school, where the … Read more
MA Sholokhov Quiet Don After the end of the penultimate Turkish campaign, the Cossack Prokofiy Melekhov led a captive Turkish woman home to the village of Veshenskaya. From their marriage a son was born, named Pantelei, as dark and black-eyed as his mother. Subsequently, Pantelei Prokofievich occupied himself with the arrangement of the economy and … Read more
JF Cooper Pioneers, or At the Beginnings of Susquehanne Early December Evening of 1793 Horses slowly pull up big sledges uphill. In the sledge, father and daughter are Judge Marmaduke Temple and Miss Elizabeth. The judge is one of the first settlers; one of those thanks to which this newly wilderness has changed. There were … Read more
It is no secret that one can achieve success in work and life not only with a special mindset, diligence and professional skills, but also having a set of specific traits of character, internal superiority and the art of management of other people. Change life for the better without the possession of secret knowledge, it … Read more
Mechanic Etienne Lantier, expelled from the railroad for a slap to the chief, is trying to get a job at the Monsu mine, near Vore, in the village of Two Hundred Soroca. There is no work anywhere, the miners are starving. The place for him at the mine was found only because on the eve … Read more
The novel is a continuation of the “Years of Wilhelm Meister’s Teaching.” The hero who, at the end of the previous book, became a member of the Tower Society, receives from his comrades a mission to go on a journey. At the same time he is given the condition not to stay under one roof … Read more
N. S. Leskov Enchanted Wanderer Several travelers are encountered on the way to Valaam on the Ladoga Lake. One of them, dressed in a novice cassock and in the form of a “typical hero”, says that, with the “gift of God” to tame the horses, he, according to the parental promise, died all his life … Read more
VB Shklovsky Zoo. Letters not about love, or the Third Eloise Illegally emigrating from Soviet Russia in 1922, the author arrived in Berlin. Here he met many Russian writers who, like most Russian emigrants, lived in the vicinity of the Zoo metro station. Zoo is a zoological garden, and therefore, having decided to present the … Read more
MI Tsvetaeva Pied Piper “Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a deadly, bureaucratic, dictatorial one. It is the verdict of any utopia about the possibility of a people’s celebration, people’s … Read more
In the main action of the novel there are two storylines. The first line is set in Moscow in the 1930s. The second line is a narration about what happened more than two thousand years ago in the city of Yershalaim. The story of these events is given either in the form of separate chapters … Read more
The poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half have survived, and the rest have survived in the Tibetan and Chinese transcriptions King Shuddhodana of the Shakya family who lives in the city of Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas, the son of Siddhartha is … Read more
Natalia N. Karamzin, boyar daughter The main heroine is Natalia, she lives in pre-Petrine Russia. Her parents: father, boyar Matvey, – a rich man, a faithful adviser to the tsar; Natalia’s mother died and she was brought up by a nanny. The whole way of life of the heroes is regulated by the rules of … Read more
In 1348, Florence was visited by a destructive plague, and a hundred thousand people died. Separated family and friendly ties, servants refused to serve the masters, the dead were not buried, but dumped in pits dug in church cemeteries. When the city was almost empty, in the church of Santa Maria Novella, after the divine … Read more
The main characters in the play “Waiting for Godot” – Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) – seem to be bogged down in time, nailed to one place by the expectation of a certain Godot, a meeting with which, in their opinion, will make sense in their meaningless existence and rid the threats of hostile the … Read more
Sherlock Holmes is one of those literary characters that is known to almost everyone, including even those who have not read anything about his adventures. He was due to appear to the great English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who introduced us to him in his novel “The Study in Scarlet Tones” in 1887. Ironically, … Read more
BOHEMIA Opera in four acts Libretto by L. Illik and D. Giacosa Characters: Rudolf, the poet Marcel, artist Shonar, musician Collin, philosopher Benoit, householder Alcindor, State Counselor Mimi Musette Parpignol Customs sergeant Tenor Baritone Baritone Bass Bass Bass Soprano Soprano Tenor Bass Students, grisettes, townspeople, merchants and merchants, waiters in cafes, boys, girls, etc. Location: … Read more
The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne – two large modern portraits, one of which depicts a man in the costume of Henry … Read more
According to the writer’s plan, the novel is “something more than a literary work: it is a living being, a story about the spiritual world of one woman”, covering forty years of her life – from a carefree youth to a courageous death. From the first pages of the novel we see “a strong, fresh … Read more
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf The novel is a scrap of Harry Haller, found in the room where he lived, and the nephew of the mistress of the house in which he was renting a room. On behalf of the nephew of the mistress, a preface to these notes is also written. It describes the lifestyle of … Read more
The author collected oral testimonies, his own observations and historical works of his time and on their basis recreated the life of the French society of the end of the 16th – the first half of the 17th century, presenting it in the form of a kaleidoscope of short stories, the heroes of which were … Read more
In the frozen haze the lyrical hero sees his “star of the fields.” From a great height, she looks at the ground, in the wormwood (an unfrozen or slightly melted place on the icy surface of the reservoir). But the clock struck twelve. So, the field came down midnight. There was a borderline time of … Read more
F. Grilpartser Dream – life In the old days in Persia, in a picturesque mountainous area, among the rocks and trees, the family of the rich villager Masud lives. Every summer evening, Mirza, the daughter of Masud, awaits with fear and trepidation the return from the hunting of Rustan. This is the nephew of Masud, … Read more
England, early thirties. Hercule Poirot with his old friend and assistant captain Hastings come to the seaside resort of Saint-Loup in the south of England. Near the hotel “Majestic”, in which they stopped, they meet a young girl, Nick Buckley. In conversation for a cocktail it turns out that she is the proprietress of a … Read more
“On the shore of the desert waves” of the Neva is Peter and thinks of the city that will be built here and which will become Russia’s window to Europe. A hundred years have passed, and the city “from the darkness of the forests, out of the marshland / blossomed magnificently, proudly.” Peter’s creation is … Read more
ANTONIN Dvorak 1841-1904 Antonin Dvořák is the largest Czech composer who, along with his older contemporary Smetana, is a classic of Czech music, the founder of the national composer school. In the formation of the national original art of the Czech Republic, he played a huge role. Dvorak’s music is distinguished by its exceptional melodic … Read more