About ten o’clock in the evening, in a windy and rainy weather a tall policeman walked around his plot. Near the entrance to one of the shops, he saw a man and approached him. The man struck a match to smoke and the policeman could see his face. The man explained that he was waiting … Read more
Tirso Molina Don Gil Green Pants Dona Juana in a men’s suit – green pants and a camisole – comes from his native Valladolid to Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He asks the lady why she left her father’s house and travels in a man’s guise. Juan tells that on Easter, in … Read more
Elias Canetti Blind Professor Peter Kean, a long and skinny forty-year-old bachelor, peeps through the windows of bookstores during his traditional morning walks. Almost with pleasure he notes that the waste paper and the boulevard spread wider and wider. Kin, a world-renowned scholar, a synologist, has the most important private library in Vienna in twenty-five … Read more
The satirical story “Thick and thin” by Anton Chekhov wrote in 1883. In the work, the author ridicules the existing human vices in any society: hypocrisy and “riches”. For the first time Chekhov’s story “Thick and thin” was published in the humorous edition of “Shards”. Main characters Porphyry is a thin, collegiate assessor. Misha is … Read more
“ARSENAL” Opera in three acts (seven paintings) Libretto by A. Levada and A. Malyshko Translation from the Ukrainian B. Paliichuk Characters: Maxim, a worker at the Arsenal plant Alexey, his younger brother Mother Maxim and Alexei Yarina, the bride of Maxim Gorbenko, the Petlyura centurion Maryana, his sister General, Commander of the Troops Kerensky Semko, … Read more
Alexey Arseniev was born in the 70’s. XIX century. in the middle zone of Russia, in his father’s farmstead, on Kamenka farmstead. Childhood years passed in the silence of the discreet Russian nature. Endless fields with aromas of grasses and flowers in summer, vast snowy expanses in winter gave rise to a heightened sense of … Read more
ORESTEE The musical trilogy in three parts (eight scenes) Libretto by A. A. Venkstern Characters: Agamemnon, King of Argos Clytemnestra, his wife Aghist, his cousin Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Cassandra, Trojan Prisoner Apollo of Loki Athena Pallada Areopagite Coryphaeus Guardian The slave The shadow of Agamemnon Bass … Read more
Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old lecturer in French literature, has an unusual inclination for nymphets, as he calls them – charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression gave him this clandestine experience, which warded off more mature women. The action of the confessional novel written by Humberts in prison dates back to the … Read more
Gottfried Benn Ptolemeets The narration is from the first person. The author and the narrator, who owns the Lotus Beauty Institute, paints a few strokes of the picture of Berlin during the occupation, in the cold winter of 1947: the population suffers from hunger, the surviving furniture goes on to kindle, the trade has stopped, … Read more
Instead of arithmetic schoolchildren were sent to dig potatoes. The guys were happy with this replacement, invented entertainment: on the rod they sculpted a lump of earth and launched it into the sky. Who is further and higher. The hero bends to the ground, and suddenly gets a blow between the shoulder blades. This is … Read more