One evening, a servant, fired by his master, was waiting for rain under the gates of Rasemon. Seated on the top step, he often touched the boil, jumped out on his right cheek. Although the gate was on the main street, there was no one except this servant, only a cricket sat on a round … Read more
“I was impressed by the amazing variety of adventures noted in the features of your face,” Gill Blasu once said to a casual counter-one of the many people with whom the hero brought fate and whose confession he was able to hear. Yes, the adventures that fell to the share of Gilles Blas of Santillana, … Read more
At the headquarters of the Junta, the boy appeared recently. He was a frail young man of eighteen. To the members of the Junta, he stated that his name was Felipe Rivera, and that he wanted to work for the revolution. At first, none of the revolutionaries believed the guy, suspecting him as one of … Read more
The book is written in the first person. Exupery dedicated it to one of his fellow pilots – Henri Guillaume. A person reveals himself in the fight against obstacles. The pilot is like a peasant who cultivates the earth and thereby extorts from nature some of its secrets. The pilot’s work is also fruitful. The … Read more
“I told the truth.” If anyone knows anything contrary to what has been said here, he knows only lies and slander. “ His first misfortune, the author of these lines, calls his own birth, which cost his mother’s life. The child grows, showing the shortcomings inherent in his age; “I was a chatterbox, gourmet, a … Read more
The “Pentateuch” is a world-famous collection of Indian tales, fables, stories and parables. The pliable stories “Panchatantra”, penetrated into the literature and folklore of many peoples, are united by framework stories that have this or that didactic setting King Amarashakti had three stupid and lazy sons. To awaken their intelligence, the king called the sage … Read more
I can not say for sure when this miracle happened. In any case – if not on the day of the summer solstice, on June 21, it is very close to it. And it happened at the dacha, in Ville d’Avray, ten kilometers from Paris. I then woke up before the light, woke up somehow … Read more
The unremarkable employee of the Beijing branch of the Mitsubishi company Osino Khanzaburo suddenly died before he was thirty. According to the conclusion of Professor Yamai, director of the Tongren Hospital, Khandzaburo died of a stroke. But Khandzaburo himself did not think it was a blow. He did not even think he was dead. He … Read more
PART 1 1 “In the beginning of July, in an extremely hot time, in the evening, one young man came out of his closet, which he hired from tenants in the S-m lane, to the street and slowly, as if in indecision, went to K-nu bridge.” He avoids meeting with the landlady, since he has … Read more
The story takes place at the steelworks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The factory whistle was roaring, announcing the beginning of the working day. The dull dawn of the rainy August day gave him a touch of sadness and threat. The buzzer caught the engineer Andrei Ilyich Bobrov at tea. Recently, Andrei … Read more