Auguste Saint-Claire was not loved in the so-called “big world”; the main reason was that he tried to please only those who were to his heart. He walked one by himself and carefully avoided the others. In addition, he was careless and absent-minded. He was proud and proud. He valued others’ opinions. He called all … Read more
MA Bulgakov Days of Turbins The first, second and third actions occur in the winter of 1918, the fourth action – in early 1919. The scene of action is the city of Kiev. Actors Turbin Aleksey Vasilievich – colonel-artilleryman, 30 years old. Nikolai Turbin is his brother, 18 years old. Talberg Elena Vasilievna – their … Read more
Ivan Petrovich, a twenty-four-year-old novice writer, in search of a new apartment, meets on a Petersburg street a strange old man with a dog. Unable to be thin, in rags, he has the habit of sitting for hours in Miller’s confectionery near Voznesensky Prospekt, basking at the stove and staring at the deadly unseeing glance … Read more
For the first time with the heroes of the novel, the author introduces us on the eve of how they retreat as part of the French troops fighting the fascist conquerors in Flanders, are captured and sent to a concentration camp for prisoners of war in Germany. The main characters of the narrative are a … Read more
Aldous Huxley Oh Brave New World The action of this novel anti-utopia takes place in a fictional World State. There is a 632-year stability era, the Era Ford. Ford, who created the world’s largest automobile company in the early twentieth century, is revered in the World State for God. It is called “Our Lord Ford”. … Read more
Two tired people, weighed down by heavy bales and rifles, limp down to the river. One of the men regrets that they do not have two cartridges hidden in a hiding place. Having entered the first traveler into cold water, the second slipped on a smooth boulder and nearly fell. He tried to go on, … Read more
Winter, the French city of Rouen. There is a Franco-Prussian war. The Prussian army occupies the city. The Germans allow several merchants to leave the city for Le Havre on business. Early in the morning, ten people leave Rouen in the Normandy carriage. Among them: the wholesale wine merchant with his wife, the owner of … Read more
Letters to Aissa – a recognized “little masterpiece” of French prose. The fate of their author is amazing. In the spring of 1698, the French diplomat, Count Charles de Ferriol, bought for a thousand and five hundred livres at the Istanbul slave market a four-year-old Cherkeshenka girl, taken prisoner during one of the Turkish raids. … Read more
The story takes place in May 1942. The commander of the railway escort, Fedot Evgrafich Vaskov, asks the authorities to send him “non-drinking” soldiers, since everyone who comes to him on the road, feeling the calm there, soon begins to “drink and walk.” Fedot Evgrafich himself does not accept such behavior. Finally, the bosses send … Read more
Interesting peasant types attracted the attention of the author in a small village Kolotovka. Here is the pub “Pritynny”, which is famous throughout the district and collects most of the people, but not because of the prices. Glory to his drinking establishment is obliged to the knot-maker Nikolai Ivanovich, who started the order to treat … Read more
About ten o’clock in the evening, in a windy and rainy weather a tall policeman walked around his plot. Near the entrance to one of the shops, he saw a man and approached him. The man struck a match to smoke and the policeman could see his face. The man explained that he was waiting … Read more
Tirso Molina Don Gil Green Pants Dona Juana in a men’s suit – green pants and a camisole – comes from his native Valladolid to Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He asks the lady why she left her father’s house and travels in a man’s guise. Juan tells that on Easter, in … Read more
Elias Canetti Blind Professor Peter Kean, a long and skinny forty-year-old bachelor, peeps through the windows of bookstores during his traditional morning walks. Almost with pleasure he notes that the waste paper and the boulevard spread wider and wider. Kin, a world-renowned scholar, a synologist, has the most important private library in Vienna in twenty-five … Read more
The satirical story “Thick and thin” by Anton Chekhov wrote in 1883. In the work, the author ridicules the existing human vices in any society: hypocrisy and “riches”. For the first time Chekhov’s story “Thick and thin” was published in the humorous edition of “Shards”. Main characters Porphyry is a thin, collegiate assessor. Misha is … Read more
“ARSENAL” Opera in three acts (seven paintings) Libretto by A. Levada and A. Malyshko Translation from the Ukrainian B. Paliichuk Characters: Maxim, a worker at the Arsenal plant Alexey, his younger brother Mother Maxim and Alexei Yarina, the bride of Maxim Gorbenko, the Petlyura centurion Maryana, his sister General, Commander of the Troops Kerensky Semko, … Read more
Alexey Arseniev was born in the 70’s. XIX century. in the middle zone of Russia, in his father’s farmstead, on Kamenka farmstead. Childhood years passed in the silence of the discreet Russian nature. Endless fields with aromas of grasses and flowers in summer, vast snowy expanses in winter gave rise to a heightened sense of … Read more
ORESTEE The musical trilogy in three parts (eight scenes) Libretto by A. A. Venkstern Characters: Agamemnon, King of Argos Clytemnestra, his wife Aghist, his cousin Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Cassandra, Trojan Prisoner Apollo of Loki Athena Pallada Areopagite Coryphaeus Guardian The slave The shadow of Agamemnon Bass … Read more
Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old lecturer in French literature, has an unusual inclination for nymphets, as he calls them – charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression gave him this clandestine experience, which warded off more mature women. The action of the confessional novel written by Humberts in prison dates back to the … Read more
Gottfried Benn Ptolemeets The narration is from the first person. The author and the narrator, who owns the Lotus Beauty Institute, paints a few strokes of the picture of Berlin during the occupation, in the cold winter of 1947: the population suffers from hunger, the surviving furniture goes on to kindle, the trade has stopped, … Read more
Instead of arithmetic schoolchildren were sent to dig potatoes. The guys were happy with this replacement, invented entertainment: on the rod they sculpted a lump of earth and launched it into the sky. Who is further and higher. The hero bends to the ground, and suddenly gets a blow between the shoulder blades. This is … Read more
Father Ellen served in India as a major artillery major. He died, leaving a decent state. When the girl and her twin sister Julia were two years old, the mother married Dr. Grimsby Roylott, the offspring of one of England’s richest families. One of his relatives lost all his fortune, and Roylott had to earn … Read more
P. B. Shelley The Rise of Islam Shelley dedicated her romantic poem in twelve songs to “the cause of broad and liberating morality”, to the ideas of freedom and justice. The poem is written in the so-called Spencer’s stanza. During the thunderstorm raging above the earth, the poet suddenly opens up among the clouds a … Read more
ACT FIRST Paris, the times of Louis XIV. In the toilet of the theater, the Pale-Royalshtilshchik of the candles of Islam, Jean Baptiste Moliere. The bud gives water to the run-down diminished Moliere. The famous artist is very worried, because in the hall – the king. Having translated a spirit, the actor again runs to … Read more
Andrey Bely Petersburg Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov is a senator of a very respectable kind: he has his ancestor Adam. However, if we talk about times not so remote, then during the reign of Anna Ioannovna, the Kirkiz-Kaisak Mirza Ab-Lai entered the Russian service, was baptized by Andrew and received the nickname of the ears. He … Read more
Yu. K. Olesha Three Fat Men In one city the doctor once lived. His name was Gaspard Arneri. He was a scientist, and there was no one in his country wiser for him. The country where Gaspard Arneri lived was ruled by Three Fat Men, gluttonous and cruel. One summer, in June, a clear clear … Read more
Maxim Gorky Chelkash “The dark blue southern sky, darkened by the dust, is cloudy, the hot sun looks out into the greenish sea, as though through a thin gray veil, it hardly reflects in the water… There is vanity and confusion in the port. they enslaved and depersonalized them. ” A string of stevedores, carrying … Read more
The word “metamorphosis” means “transformation.” There were a lot of ancient myths that ended in the transformations of the heroes – into the river, to the mountain, into the animal, into the plant, into the constellation. The poet Ovid tried to collect all such myths about the transformations that he knew; there were more than … Read more
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (March 6, 1929, Sukhum, Abkhazia, USSR) is an outstanding Soviet and Russian prose writer and poet of Abkhaz origin. Born in the family of the former owner of a brick factory of Iranian origin. In 1938, the writer’s father was deported from the USSR. He was brought up by his mother’s relatives … Read more
It was in 1917. The twenty-two-year-old daughter of the famous talented artist of the Royal Academy named Malkom Reid marries a beautiful baronet, known as Clifford Chatterley. Her daughter has a beautiful name – Constance Reid. Six months after the ceremony, Clifford, who all this time fought in France all this time, returns to England. … Read more
AP Chekhov Ivanov The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a … Read more
Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, enjoys universal sympathy: those around are attracted by the good nature and naivete emanating from the quiet rosy-cheeked young lady. Many people call her just “darling”. Olga Semenovna feels a constant need to love someone. Her next affection is Ivan Petrovich Kukin, an entrepreneur and … Read more
AS Griboyedov Woe from the mind Early in the morning, Maid Lisa knocks in the bedroom to the young lady. Sophia does not immediately respond: she talked with her lover, the secretary of Father Molchalin, who lived in the same house all night. Silently appeared father Sophia, Pavel Afanasevich Famusov, flirts with Lisa, who barely … Read more
E. L. Schwartz The Dragon 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 – … Read more
The donkey met the nightingale and asked him to sing. He sang and was beautiful. All were heard. But the donkey advised him to learn from the cock. Nightingale flew away. Analysis of the fable Donkey and the Nightingale, the heroes of the fable The main characters of the fable are a donkey and a … Read more
American Robert Jordan, voluntarily participating in the civil war in Spain on the side of the Republicans, receives a mission from the center – to blow up the bridge before the offensive. A few days before the offensive, he must conduct at the location of the partisan detachment of a certain Pablo. About Pablo say … Read more
R. Chandler Eternal Dream Thirty-three-year-old hero-narrator Philip Marlo, who previously worked in the district attorney’s office of Los Angeles, has now become a private detective and is investigating matters whose publicity is not strongly interested in his clients. He is at the home of the millionaire Guy Sternwood, who informs Marlo that a certain Geiger … Read more
On a winter evening, six people gathered at an old university friend. People, apparently, are not young and with education. Speech went by the way about Shakespeare, that his types are truly “snatched from the very depths of human” essence. “” Everyone called those Hamlets, Othello and other heroes of the Shakespearean tragedies, who happened … Read more
The Community Council of Montefosco, represented by three members of the community – Nardo, Cecco and Mengone, as well as two elders – Pascualotto and Marcone, gathered on a very important occasion: the old Marquis Ridolfo Montefosco died, and now his son, the Marquis of Florindo, went to their land accompanied by my mother, the … Read more
Augustin Eugene Scribe, August 25, 1791, Paris – February 21, 1861, ibid.) Is a French playwright, specializing in comedies and vaudevilles. In Russia is known primarily for the play “A glass of water.” In 1979 the play was screened by Yulia Karasik. Distinguished by extreme performance and productivity (more than 150 plays), a good thoroughness … Read more
Together with the hero of the novel Jacob Fabian, we live a short period of time – maybe a few weeks or even less. During this period, the hero basically suffers losses – he loses his job, loses a close friend, his beloved leaves him. Finally, he loses his life. The novel is somewhat reminiscent … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes appeals for the help of Miss Dobney with the request to find her ward lady Frances. Once every two weeks, Lady Francis writes to her old governess, but for five weeks she has not heard from her. The state of Lady Francis is small, but she inherited the rarest jewels and always … Read more
Once it was predicted to the king of Argos Akrisia that his daughter Danai would have a son, from whose hand he was destined to perish. To avoid the fulfillment of the prediction, then King Akrisii locked his daughter in a copper-stone dungeon, but Zeus fell in love with Dana, penetrated there in the image … Read more
The journalist Gilles Lantier, now thirty-five, is depressed. Almost every day he wakes up at dawn, and his heart pounding from what he calls fear of life. He has an attractive appearance, an interesting profession, he has achieved success, but his melancholy and hopeless despair are gnawing at him. He lives in a three-room apartment … Read more
The main character of the novel “Kaspar Hauser” was a prototype – a real person, about whom much was written and spoken throughout Europe. He suddenly appeared in 1828 in Nuremberg, this young stranger of sixteen or seventeen, whose past was shrouded in mystery and whose short life was soon forcibly interrupted. The novel begins … Read more
VP Aksenov The search for the genre The artist of the original genre Pavel Durov spends the night in the penalty area of the traffic police of a provincial town. The bumper of his “Zhiguli” is broken “ZIL” – polowalko, shelter for the night he has nowhere. Reflecting on why he travels all over the … Read more
It constantly rains on Venus, and the sun appears every seven years only for two hours. Thousands of days filled with rain, entirely composed of rain; rumble and shower, crystal waterfalls of hail, violent hurricanes, like tsunamis that flood the islands. None of the colonists, except the girl Margot, does not remember what the sun … Read more
The place of action is a small town on the eve of the arrival of enemy troops in it. According to the author’s words, the events described in the novel are strictly real, that is, they do not pretend to any allegorical significance, however, reality is represented in it not that which is familiar to … Read more
King Udayana, the ruler of the country of Watts, was defeated in battle and lost half of the kingdom. His wise minister Yauhandharayana understands that it is possible to restore the lost only with the help of the mighty king Magadha Darshaki. To do this, Udayans need to enter into a kindred union with him … Read more
A long epic is considered by many to be fiction, comparing it with fairy tales. However, epic, that is, byl, differs significantly from folk fantasy. Of course, the events described in the stories are much exaggerated. But scientists find confirmation that they took place in real life. For example, in the caves of the Kiev … Read more
They say that there are no rules without exception, and any exception just confirms the rule. Maybe that’s the way it is. However, this statement, apparently, has nothing to do with the genius of the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and bypasses the tenth party of himself, and his famous postulate: “Brevity is the sister … Read more