Nemo, the captain (Prince Dakkar), the explorer of the depths, the inventor and owner of the fantastic Nautilus submarine, which from time to time is shown on the surface of the seas, is perceived by everyone as a kind of supernatural and dangerous representative of cetaceans, becoming an object not only of curiosity but also … Read more
There was such a city in the world Serendipp. And once passed by the great magician Durandarte. He went into the city to rest his feet, and the ruler of this city, Deramo, welcomed the traveler at his palace, fed him and gave him drink, delighted his hearing with wonderful music, for which he was … Read more
Count Almaviva, dressed in a bachelor suit on the night street of Seville, waits in the window for his beloved. A nobleman has long been tired of all this court debauchery and therefore for the first time wants to win the unbiased pure love of a noble young girl. In order for the title not … Read more
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 comedy of masks: it is uncomplicated … Read more
The young male narrator, who “cast fate for six months in the remote village of Perebrod, Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polissya,” unbearably misses, and his only entertainment was hunting with the servant Yarmola and trying to teach the latter literacy. One day, during a terrible blizzard, the hero learns from the usually inconsiderate … Read more
In the city of Siracusa lived a merchant, and he had two twin boys, like two drops of water. The merchant drove out of the sea and took with him one of the boys – named Menechm. There was a holiday, the boy was lost in the crowd; he was picked up by another merchant … Read more
IS Turgenev The spring waters of the Tale are prefaced by a quatrain from an ancient Russian romance: Funny years, Happy days – Like spring waters Rushed they are visible, it will be about love, youth. Maybe in the form of memories? Yes indeed. “He returned to his office in the second night, sent a … Read more
Suddenly he remembered the Evanshan potion, took it out and gave the young man a sniff of that tops. With this a miracle happened. The guy turned pale, “The native steppe – wide, free and colorful – suddenly appeared before my eyes, with her and my friend, unfortunate… Volodya, my favorite volost! Native tents, native … Read more
Clerfe runs the car at the gas station. Filling gasoline boy named Hubert Goering finds out in him a race driver. Clerfe’s car frightens the horses carrying a sleigh with a man and a woman. The protagonist stops the animals and helps them to calm down. In the sanatorium “Montana” is treated for tuberculosis former … Read more
The plot of V. Shalamov’s stories is a painful description of the prison and camp life of prisoners of the Soviet GULAG, their tragic fates similar to each other, in which case a ruthless or merciful case, assistant or murderer, arbitrariness of superiors and thieves. Hunger and its convulsive saturation, exhaustion, excruciating dying, slow and … Read more