The novel’s events date back to 1946 and unfold in Wurzburg-on-Main, destroyed by American aviation after the SS command, ignoring the will of the impotent population, rejected the Americans’ demand to surrender the city without a fight and signed an order for defense. Few have any housing left. People mostly huddle in the basement of … Read more
On the main square of Argos there is a mosquito-stained statue of Jupiter, Waving off large fat flies, enters Orestes. Screams scream from the palace. Fifteen years ago, Clytemnestra, the mother of Orestes and Elektra, and her lover Egiof killed their father Agamemnon. Aegisthus wanted to kill Orestes, but the boy managed to escape. And … Read more
Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera Prologue. London. Soho. Fair. The street singer sings a ballad about the Mackey knife: “The shark teeth have wedges All stick out like a show, and Mackey only has a knife, And he’s hidden from the eyes.” If the blood spills the shark, All the water is red around. no … Read more
At the end of the penultimate Turkish campaign, the Cossack Prokofiy Melekhov led a captive Turkish woman home to the village of Veshenskaya. From their marriage a son was born, named Pantelei, as dark and black-eyed as his mother. Subsequently, Pantelei Prokofievich occupied himself with the arrangement of the economy and considerably expanded his estates. … Read more
Sorceress Rose Veneda discusses in her earth grotto with Sister Lilla the course of the battle between the Venedian and Lechite tribes. Ecstatic visions reveal to Rose that her witchcraft does not help the Venedines win the battle, the homeland will be ruined and that Lilla will also die. Lilla cries, what causes Rosa’s wrath: … Read more
The action takes place in a small town in one of the southern states of America. Lizzie McKay, a young girl, comes from New York by train, where she witnesses the murder of a white man by one of the two Negroes who, as the killer later explained, allegedly wanted to rape Lizzy. The next … Read more
At the age of eighteen, Carolina Meeber, with four dollars in her purse, leaves her hometown of Columbia City, and travels to Chicago, where her older sister and her husband live. In 1889, in America, Sister Kerry, so loved and loved people called her Caroline, inspired by a dream for a better life in a … Read more
J. Boccaccio Fiesoland Nymphs In the center of poetic narrative is the touching love story of the shepherd and hunter Afrique and the nymph of Menzola. We learn that in times immemorial in Fiesole, women especially honored the goddess Diana, who patronized chastity. Many parents after the birth of children, who voted, and who in … Read more
Forty-six-year-old George, Ph. D., a teacher at a college in New England, and his wife Martha (six years older than her husband) return home late at night after receiving the father of Martha, the rector of the same college. Already on the threshold they begin to conduct a habitual squabble between themselves, which has been … Read more
Yu. V. Bondarev Hot snow During the Great Patriotic War, the writer as an artilleryman went a long way from Stalingrad to Czechoslovakia. Among Yuri Bondarev’s books on the war, “Hot Snow” occupies a special place, opening up new approaches to solving moral and psychological problems posed in his first novels – “Battalions Ask for … Read more