Each of those living on earth is the result of countless additions: four thousand years ago in Crete love could begin, which ended yesterday in Texas. Every life is a moment, open to eternity, Wolfe says. And here is one of them… Eugene Gant is a descendant of the Englishman Gilbert Gant, who arrived in … Read more
V. Mayakovsky Bathhouse The play takes place in the USSR in 1930. The inventor of Eccentrics is going to include the time machine he designed. He explains the importance of this invention to his friend Bicyclebikin: you can stop a second of happiness and enjoy a month, you can “twist the stretched long years of … Read more
“After the wedding, there was not even a light snack.” An 18-year-old girl, Anya, married a 52-year-old official Modest Alekseich. After the wedding they go to the monastery, on a pilgrimage. On the train, Modest Alexeyitch, smiling, recalls one instance: “When Kosorotov received the Order of St. Anne of the second degree and came to … Read more
Part one Introduction Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov I met in a small Siberian town. Born in Russia as a nobleman, he became an ex-convict of the second class for the murder of his wife. After serving 10 years of hard labor, he lived his life in town K. He was a pale and thin man of … Read more
EM Remarque On the Western Front without Change The height of the First World War. Germany already fights against France, Russia, England and America, Paul Boyer, on whose behalf the narrative is conducted, represents his fellow soldiers. Schoolchildren, peasants, fishermen, artisans of different ages gathered here. Rota lost almost half of the composition and nine … Read more
VA Zhukovsky Twelve sleeping virgins The mysterious narrative is preceded by an appeal to the Dream, the “air companion of young days”, whose presence promises a sweet recollection. The first ballad. Thunderbolt In time immemorial over frothy Dnieper sat, twisting, Gromoboy. He curses his sad lot, a beggarly and homeless life, with which he is … Read more
Moscow, the decade of reforms of Alexander II. In a small, well-kept apartment, a widow’s mother and her young son, Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov, live. From the conversation it becomes clear that Glumov tells his mother that he will try to achieve success through his acquaintances, and not as before. He also says that he has … Read more
AP Platonov Return After serving the whole war, the Guards Captain Alexei Alekseyevich Ivanov departs from the army for demobilization. At the station, long waiting for the train, he gets acquainted with the girl Masha, the daughter of the spaceman, who served in the dining room of their part. They travel together for two days, … Read more
E. Rotterdam The Praise of Stupidity Stupidity says: let the gross mortals talk about her as they please, she also dares to claim that her divine presence, only one, cheers the gods and people. And therefore now the laudable word Nonsense will be spoken. Who, if not Nonsense, should become a trumpeter of his own … Read more
AV Vampilov Last summer in Chulimsk Action takes place in a taiga district center in the early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, goes to the teahouse where she works, and on the way she looks around the front garden in front of the house: again the boards are taken out … Read more