Homeless vagrant Soapy merz on the bench in the park. Winter came, it was necessary to think about housing. He wanted to go to a hospitable prison, where he had enough food and a roof over his head for three months. For several years he spent the winter there. There were charitable institutions, but Sopi … Read more
In French, this novel is called “Great Families,” and it deals mainly with the ancient aristocratic family of La Monnery and the family of immigrants from Austria, the major financiers of the Schudlers. Representatives of these two families came to one of the Parisian maternity hospitals on the occasion of the birth of Jean-Noel Schudler, … Read more
Action 1 Public garden on the banks of the Volga. Phenomenon 1 Kuligin sits on a bench, Kudryash and Shapkin stroll. Kuligin admires the Volga. They hear how in the distance, Dikoi scolds his nephew. Discuss this. Kudryash says that Boris Grigorievich “went to the victim of the Wild”, complains about the humility of the … Read more
The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events in the story. It represents a free chronicle of several days, which are marked for the hero by a severe spiritual crisis. A young writer from Austria, he came … Read more
It is a tragic fare, a grotesque tale, consisting of dozens of oral novels. The author himself tells it this way: “Three friends, who have met at the institute, are living, gradually they are divorced, and two of them will find out that the third has collapsed under the ice near Leningrad, in January, and … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov In the reign of Catherine II, in the town of Soligalich, Kostroma province, the son of a small office clerk Ryzhov was born Alex’s son. Having lost his father at a young age, he was brought up by his mother, who sold pies of his own making on the … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more
In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of the rich widow Kupavina, shamelessly … Read more
Epic poem, translating the legend of Nale and Damayanti from the “Mahabharata” In the middle of India in the mountains of Vindhya is the country of Nishadha, and its ruler was the noble and magnanimous king of Nala. Not far from Nishadha was another country, Vidarbha, and there the daughter of Damayanti, a beauty, was … Read more
The incredible events of this novel, combining features and essays, and utopias, and philosophical satirical stories, occur at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His hero, Baron Cosimo di Rondo, at the age of twelve, protesting against the boiled snails served every day for dinner, climbs onto a tree and decides to spend … Read more
Narration – from a third party. Many dialogues. The plot is dynamic, eventful, largely melodramatic. Ended the last evening of Yegor Prokudin in the zone. In the morning, the chief is admonishing him. We learn that Yegor dreams about his farm, the cow. His future wife is Lyubov Fyodorovna Baikalova. He never saw her, they … Read more
“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 power. This is a … Read more
Eliza Ozheshko Above the Neman The action takes place in the vicinity of the cities of Vilno and Grodno, in estates and villages located above the Neman. Recently, in 1863, the January uprising was suppressed. The tsarist government seeks to deprive the Poles of the possibility of considering these lands their own. The estates of … Read more
The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the XX century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, becomes, in his own … Read more
The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during Svyatok. Action first Day. A small steward’s room. In the depths of the door, to the left there is a window, near the window there is a table and a chair, in the corner there is a bed with a … Read more
Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov The genus. in 1911 Zhiganov is a talented Soviet composer, the largest representative of the Tatar musical culture. His work is characterized by a close connection with the poetic and musical folklore of the Tatar people, the ideas of modernity, a deep interest in the spiritual order, the moral ideals of the … Read more
Turgenev’s story “Bezhin Meadow” was first published in 1851 in the journal Sovremennik. The work entered the author’s cycle of short stories “Notes of a Hunter”. The essay refers to the literary direction of realism, but it also contains features of romanticism. Main characters The narrator is a hunter, a narrative is narrated from his … Read more
V. F. Tendryakov Death Action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that … Read more
Moonstone – a huge yellow diamond – from time immemorial decorated the bosom of the moon god in one of the temples of the sacred Indian city of Somnaut. In the XI century, saving the statue from the Mohammedan conquerors, the three brahmins transported it to Benares. It was there that the gods of Vishnu … Read more
Eliza, the daughter of Harpagon, and the young Wahler fell in love for a long time, and it happened under very romantic circumstances – Valer rescued the girl from the tumultuous sea waves when the ship on which they both sailed crashed. Valer’s feeling was so strong that he settled in Paris and acted as … Read more
In the small kingdom of Perador reigned King Meliott. They submitted to the kingdom of Arthur. In their kingdom, everything is very quiet and peaceful. The king has a daughter, Princess Melicent. She is the heiress of the king. For days she and her maid of honor Ninet and Alison embroidered or listened to the … Read more
Under this name are preserved three sagas, known from the “Book of the Cow Burrow” and “Yellow Book of Lecan” I In the old days, Ireland was ruled by a king from the tribe of the Tribes of the Goddess named Eohide Ollothar. He was also called Dagda, for he was able to perform miracles … Read more
G. von Kleist Prince Friedrich of Homburg In the center of the drama – the battle of Ferbellin (1675), largely determined the fate of Germany. Prince Friedrich Arthur of Hamburg, a general from the cavalry, sits under a tree in the garden of the castle in a sleepy sleep and wreathes a laurel wreath. Elector … Read more
In the neighborhood of Rochester, an ancient town southeast of London, lived a seven-year-old boy, nicknamed Pip. He was left without parents, and his “own hands” raised by an older sister who “possessed a rare ability to pay purity into something more uncomfortable and unpleasant than any mud.” With Pip, she addressed as if he … Read more
The novel begins with a foreword, in which the author warns that the novel itself is fictional and has a symbolic meaning. Further, he reports that he himself was engaged in alchemy for a long time, but his search came to a standstill until he met one person who explained to him in what direction … Read more
The protagonist of the novel, Kolen, a very nice young man of twenty-two years, who so often smiles with an infantish smile that from this on his chin he even had a dimple, is preparing for the arrival of his friend Shik. Nicholas, his cook, conjures in the kitchen, creating masterpieces of culinary art. Shik … Read more
Stories of V. Shalamov are devoted to the hard life of prisoners in the Gulag, their prison life. In the world of the Gulag, the chief role is played by the chiefs and the so-called “thieves,” the life of prisoners in the camps depends entirely on the case, whatever it may be. The author describes … Read more
Krista Volf The cleaved sky The action takes place in 1960-1961. in the GDR. The main character, Rita Seidel, a student who worked during the vacations at the car-building factory, lies in the hospital after she nearly fell under the carriages that were maneuvering on the tracks. Later it turns out that this was an … Read more
Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: the historical circumstances of the Soviet system, which destroyed the best people, forced the father and mother to occupy vacant seats, and by the end of the labor biography they were firmly established in the middle-level nomenclature. Marusi had everything … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Wild Duck 80-ies. XIX century. A festive table in the office of the rich Norwegian businessman Verle. Among the guests – the son of merchant Greghers (he works there as an ordinary employee) summoned from the plant in the Mountain Valley and Gregers’ old school friend Yalmar Ekdal. Friends have not seen each … Read more
In the glorious city of Rostov, at the Rostov priest’s cathedral was a single son. His name was Alyosha, they nicknamed him Father Popovich. Alyosha Popovich did not read and write, he did not sit down for books, but learned to own a spear from a small age, to shoot from archery, to tame heroic … Read more
The novel is based on the principle of diary entries of the protagonist Antoine Roquantin, who traveled to Central Europe, North Africa, the Far East and for three years already settled in the city of Buleville to complete his historical research on the Marquise de Roelbon, who lived in the XVIII century. At the beginning … Read more
A mountain lawn with a small hut under an overhanging rock. At the edge of the well sits a young Rautendelein, a creature from the fairies world, and combs his thick reddish-golden hair. Leaning over the edge of the frame, she calls Water. She is bored, Grandma Wittich went to the forest, you see, the … Read more
“The Canterville Ghost” is a short story about the departing England, written by a true Brit. It was published in a journal publication in 1887. The work can be considered as a moderate satire on the born bourgeoisie and sentiment on the elusive traditions of England. “Canterville Ghost”: heroes of the novel The work describes … Read more
IS Turgenev Nov Nezhdanoff gets a home teacher from the Sipyagins at a time when he needs money, even more in changing the situation. Now he can rest and gather strength, most importantly – he “fell out of the care of the Petersburg friends.” In Petersburg he lived in a dark little room with an … Read more
A. and B. Strugatsky Roadside Picnic The action takes place at the end of the XX century. in the town of Harmont, which is located near one of the Visiting Zones. The Visiting Zone – there are only six of them on Earth – this is the place where for a few years before the … Read more
JF Cooper Prairie In the autumn of 1804, along the immense expanses of the American prairies – ever farther to the west, farther from the already inhabited lands – a train of stubborn, unpretentious migrants (squatters) was slowly moving forward. The head of the family, phlegmatic uhleny Ishmael Bush, was looking out for a place … Read more
Ninety years old lives in Novgorod Buslay. He does not argue with anyone and does not quarrel with anyone: neither with Novgorod, nor with Pskov, nor with Moscow. When Buslai dies, his son Vasily remains. When Vasily turns seven, he begins to walk around the city, go to the prince’s court and “joke” with other … Read more
VF Khodasevich Selected criticism Gumilev and Blok They are people of different poetic generations. Block – a symbolist, Gumilev – the enemy of symbolism. For Blok, his poetry is a spiritual feat, inseparable from his life, for Gumilev – a form of literary activity. Blok is always a poet, Gumilev – only when he wrote … Read more
Maxim Gorky Makar Chudra Romantic night by the sea, a fire burns, an old gypsy Makar Chudra tells the writer a story about free gypsies. To his young interlocutor Makar says: “You chose a glorious share for yourself, falcon… go and look, seen enough, lie down and die – that’s all!” Makar advises to be … Read more
AR Belyaev Head of Professor Dowell Marie Laurent, a young doctor, receives an offer to go to work in the laboratory of Professor Kern. The office in which Kern takes it, produces a very gloomy impression. But much more gloomy is the visit to the laboratory: where Marie sees a human head separated from the … Read more
Schavinsky, an employee of a large Petersburg newspaper, met Rybnikov in the company of well-known St. Petersburg reporters. The miserable and miserable staff captain spoke, thundering a mediocre command and extolling – with some affectation – a Russian soldier. After observing him, Schavinsky noticed some ambiguity in his appearance. At first glance, he had an … Read more
VT Narezhny Russian Zhilbaz, or The Adventures of Prince Gavrila Simonovich Chistyakov A small village at the turn of the Oryol and Kursk Gubernias is the estate of Ivan Efremovich Prostakov, who lives with his wife and daughters, Katerina and Elizaveta. It is here that the author presents us the main character. Prince Gavrilo Simonovich … Read more
N. Machiavelli Mandragora The action takes place in Florence. Constriction is the conversation of Kallimako with his servant Shiro, addressed, in fact, to the audience. The young man explains why he returned to his native city from Paris, where he was taken away at the age of ten. In a friendly company, the French and … Read more
In a deserted mountainous area, not far from the court of the Polish king, Rosaura, a noble lady dressed in a man’s dress, and her servant, lost their way. The night is approaching, and there is no light around. Suddenly travelers distinguish in the twilight a tower, from behind the walls of which they hear … Read more
One morning the old Water Rat leaned out of the hole. The duck taught her children to stand upside down in the pond. Water Rat: “Love is certainly a good thing, but friendship is much more sublime… A faithful friend must be betrayed to me.” Then Linnet began the story of a Faithful Friend. Once … Read more
I. Death of the gods Cappadocia. The Roman tribune condemned wanted to curry favor with his boss. To do this, he is going to kill two children – cousins of the current Constantinople emperor Constantius. Constantius is the son of Constantine the Great, who began his reign by killing many of his relatives, including his … Read more
Spacious and comfortable kitchen. There is no one, only at the burning hearth warms the Cat. A tired passer-by comes in the house. This is Lancelot. He calls someone from the hosts, but there is no answer. Then he turns to the Cat and finds out that the owners – the archivist Charlemagne and his … Read more
SICILY EVENING Opera in five acts (six scenes) Libretto by E. Scribe in S. Duverie Characters: Guy de Montfort, Governor of Sicily Arrigo, young Sicilian Sire de Bétun, French officer Count de Vaudemont, French officer Giovanni di Procida, a Sicilian physician Danieli, Sicilian Thibaut, French soldier Robert, the French soldier Manfredo, Sicilian Princess Elena Ninetta, … Read more
Francois Fenelon (de Salignac, Marquis de la Mothe Fenelon, August 6, 1651 – January 7, 1715) – the famous French writer; was born in Perigord, in an ancient noble family. Until the age of 12, the boy lived in his ancestral castle, and did not devote much time to studies because of poor health; then … Read more