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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
In the summer, the narrator often goes hunting in the village of Glinnoe, which lies twenty versts from his village. Not far from Glynnogo is a manor consisting of an uninhabited manor house, a
The first book. Fucking pit. The action takes place at the end of 1942 in the quarantine camp of the first reserve regiment, located in the Siberian Military District near the Berdsk station. Part
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In 1950 saw the collection “The Magic Ring”, which, in addition to the same name, included several Russian folk tales in the author’s processing. It was not the first such book in Platonov’s, he
AI Pristavkin Night spent a golden cloud From the orphanage it was planned to send two older children to the Caucasus, but they immediately dissolved into space. And twins Kuzminy, in the orphanage Kuzmenshi,
Composer Georgy Bashilov, listening to a guest at the usual, primitive-rough drinking song, frowns. The composer’s wife explains to others that he is not insulted by singing, but, on the contrary, feels guilty that