Thomas Mann Death in Venice Gustav Ashenbach on a warm spring evening 19 … left his Munich apartment and went on a long walk. Excited by day labor, the writer hoped that his walk would reassure him. Coming back, he was tired and decided to take the tram at the Northern Cemetery. At the bus … Read more
The father of the narrator went to the Crimea to sell tobacco, so the house remained the narrator himself, his grandfather, his mother, and two brothers. My grandfather sowed a towel on the road and went to live in a kuren. He took with him the storyteller and his brother. Many people were passing by … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow. The mother of the protagonist, thirty-seven-year-old engineer Viktor Dmitriev, Ksenia Feodorovna is seriously ill, she has cancer, but she herself believes that she has a peptic ulcer. After the operation, she is sent home. The outcome is clear, but she alone believes that the matter is on the mend. … Read more
They met in summer, on one of the Volga steamers. He is a lieutenant. She is a charming little, tanned woman (she said she is coming from Anapa). “… I’m completely drunk,” she laughed, “I was really crazy, three hours ago I did not even know you existed.” The lieutenant kissed her hand, and his … Read more
AI Solzhenitsyn In the circle of the first On December 24, 1949, at five o’clock in the evening, state counselor of the second rank Innokenty Volodin almost ran away from the stairs of the Foreign Ministry, jumped out into the street, took a taxi, raced through central Moscow streets, went out on the Arbat, went … Read more
The author hears this story from the nurse of his younger brother Lyubov Onisimovna, in the past the beauty of the actress of the Oryol Theater Count Kamensky. At the Trinity, she leads the author to the cemetery, where the simple grave tells the story of “tupeynogo artist” Arkady. Arkady – a hairdresser and makeup … Read more
Terentius Self-torturer Although Terence wrote in Latin and for the Roman viewer, his characters carry Greek names and it is assumed that the action often takes place in Hellas. So in this case. Severe old man Menedemos so cursed his son Kliniya for his hobby of a poor neighbor’s girl that he was forced to … Read more
Three women “for thirty” live in the summer with their young sons at the dacha. Svetlana, Tatiana and Ira are second cousins, they bring up their children alone. Women quarrel, finding out who owns half the dacha, whose son is an offender, and whose – offended… Svetlana and Tatiana live in the country for free, … Read more
The “live hat” of Nosov begins quite normally. Two boys sit at the table and calmly draw. Nearby, at the dresser, a kitten plays. Suddenly, the characters hear something slap on the floor. It turned out that the hat fell from the dresser. Also, the usual thing, but she suddenly moved, causing the guys to … Read more
The literary journey is two-dimensional in nature: it is a real journey, and a journey of imagination. On the one hand, the material of the novel is the real journey of the officer A. Veltman to Bessarabia, Moldova, Vala-hii, Dobrudja for almost ten years, and the Russian-Turkish campaign of 1828. But on the other hand, … Read more