A. P. Chekhov The Boots Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the sick, then goes to open the corpses. But his income is barely enough to cover the … Read more
V. V. Nabokov Lolita 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 … Read more
Captain von Schlett is trying on a new uniform, ordered in the tailor’s studio of the military tailor, the Jew Adolf Wormser, in Potsdam. This is a very well known at the beginning of the century officer’s studio, Wormser – the royal court supplier. Despite the assurances of the cutter Vabshke, that the uniform sits … Read more
“Ada” is a grandiose parody of different literary genres: from the novels of Leo Tolstoy through the cycle of Marcel Proust “In search of lost time” to fiction in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut. The novel takes place in a country that originated from the assumption that the Kulikovo battle ended in the victory of … Read more
Poem to one of the plots of the “Mahabharata” During the stay of the Pandava brothers in the twelve-year forest exile, their common wife Draupadi once rebuked the eldest brother among the brothers – Yudhisthira in inaction, indecision, indulgence to the kauravas, and urged them to attack them immediately. A second brother, Bhima, agreed with … Read more
In September 1941, the Nazi troops advanced far into the depths of Soviet territory. Many areas of Ukraine and Belarus were occupied. Remained on the territory occupied by the Germans and lost in the steppes of hamlets, where the young woman Maria, her husband Ivan and their son Vasyatka lived happily. Having seized previously peaceful … Read more
JR Kipling Small tales Why the whale eats only small fish When the whale has eaten all the fish, a small cunning little fish described to him the whole charm of a man’s snack and told where to find it, but warned that man is a restless creature. Kit swallowed the sailor along with his … Read more
P. Metastasio Demofonte Dircea begs her father Matius not to rebel against the law, which requires the annual sacrifice of the young virgin of the noble family to Apollo. The name of the victim determines the lot. Only the royal daughters are spared from the terrible duty, and even then because they were sent by … Read more
August 1931. From the Mexican port of Veracruz the German passenger steamer “Vera” sails, which in mid-September is due to arrive in Bremerhaven. From the torn by the political passions of Mexico, the ship follows to Germany, where national socialism raises its head. The diverse passenger community – Germans, Swiss, Spanish, Cubans, Americans – together … Read more
Before you, blin, is nothing like a society of the future, and your humble narrator, shorty Alex, will now tell you in what kal he is here vliapalsia. We sat, as always, in the milk bar “Korova”, where the milk is served plus, we also call it “milk with knives”, that is, add any seduxen, … Read more