Fifty years a professor of history and literature, Moses Herzog wrote letters, wrote to absolutely everything in the world – the people personally familiar and unfamiliar, the living and the dead, the relatives of the former and on those, thinkers and presidents, publishers and fellow shop, church leaders, and so no one in particular, and … Read more
Alain Rob-Grieill In the maze The scene is a small town on the eve of the arrival of enemy troops. According to the author’s words, the events described in the novel are strictly real, that is, they do not pretend to any allegorical significance, however, reality is represented in it not that which is familiar … Read more
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky (January 29 (February 9), 1783, Mishenskoe, Tula Province – April 12 (April 24), 1852, Baden-Baden) – Russian poet, the founder of romanticism in Russian poetry, translator, critic. Member of the Russian Academy (1818), Honorary Member (1827) and subsequently Academician (1841) of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Privy Councilor (1841). He was … Read more
Part one. Twenty-eight years two months twenty-six days On May 4, 1950 in Pittsburgh, a man kidnaps seven-year-old Elina from the schoolyard. This is her father Leo Ross, after a divorce from his wife deprived of the right to meet with her daughter. Leo loves his daughter and hates his ex-wife – the beautiful Ardis. … Read more
Pierre Menard is a person who decided to write again “Don Quixote”. Do not rewrite it, reincarnated by deep penetration into the culture of the XVII century. in Cervantes, and write his word for a word anew from the point of view of the Frenchman of the 20th century. By the time of his death, … Read more
The gypsy camp roams the steppes of Bessarabia. At the campfire, a gypsy family prepares dinner, horses are grazing in the distance, and behind the tent is a tame bear. Gradually, everything stops and falls into a dream. Only in one tent does not sleep an old man, waiting for his daughter Zemfira, left to … Read more
Daniel Defoe Roxane A happy courtesan, or the story of life and all the vicissitudes of the fate of Mademoiselle de Belo, later called the Countess de Wintelselsheim of Germany, she is a person known in the time of Charles II under the name of Lady Roxanne (The fortunate mistress; the great variety of the … Read more
T. Williams Tram “Desire” The scene of the play is a wretched outskirts of New Orleans; in the very atmosphere of this place, according to the remark of Williams, there is something “lost, spoiled.” It is here that the tram with the symbolic name “Desire” is brought by Blanche DuBois, who, after a long chain … Read more
H. Benavente The Game of Interest The play is preceded by a prologue pronounced by one of the actors before the curtain, which is a laudable word for farce as a genre. In the prologue it is reported that the play offered to the audience is a farce, more like a puppet comedy or a … Read more
Events unfold in Pisa at the end of the XV century. Head of the Pisa garrison Guido Colonna discusses the situation with his lieutenants Borso and Torello: Pisa is surrounded by enemies – the troops of the Florentines, and the troops sent by Venice to help the Pisans could not get through to them. The … Read more