Once upon a time there was an “enlightened, moderately liberal” pisar. Smart parents, dying, left him to live, looking at both. Piskar realized that he was in danger from everywhere: from large fish, from neighbors-piskaray, from a man. Piskar built a hole for himself, where no one except him could fit, at night he swam … Read more
The action takes place in Seville in the “era of beautiful costumes.” Father Don Juan, Tenorio, complains to his father Diego that his son, a twenty-year-old young man, absolutely not interested in women. His soul belongs entirely to geometry. And even in a brothel, he plays chess. This conversation takes place during the masquerade, preceding … Read more
Early spring. The end of the century. In Russia there is a train. In the car there is a lively conversation; merchant, clerk, attorney, smoking lady and other passengers argue about the women’s question, about marriage and free love. Only love covers marriage, says the smoking lady. Here, in the middle of her speech, a … Read more
GD Toro Walden, or Life in the Forest In this book, Thoreau describes his own life, the period when, for two years alone, he lived on the shore of the Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and, in addition, shares his views on sense of being and about the most rational way of combining spiritual activity … Read more
July 11, 1856 in a room of one of the large St. Petersburg hotels find a note left by a strange lodger. The memo says that its author will soon be heard on the Liteiny Bridge and that no one should have any suspicions. The circumstances are being clarified very soon: at night a certain … Read more
Birth of Cuchulainn Once upon a land of uladov birds of an unknown breed flew and began to devour all the fruits, cereals, grass, all the greenery to the very root. Then, in order to save their livelihood, the ulas decide to equip the nine chariots and set out to hunt the birds. On the … Read more
“Russian man on rendez-vous” refers to the journalism and has a subtitle “Reflections on reading the story of Mr. Turgenev” Asya “. In this article Chernyshevsky gives a broader picture associated with contemporary Russian society, namely, with the image of a “positive hero” of novels and novels, which in some situations shows unexpected negative properties … Read more
On the sea, Grandfather Agafon and Andreika are fishing in the boat. They pull the fish caught in the net. The boy unintentionally releases the carp into the water, for which the grandfather painfully beats his tarred rope. Andrei is an orphan. When his father left for the Kuban and disappeared, the mother, along with … Read more
George Bernanos Under the Sun of Satan Germain Malorty, nicknamed Mushette, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Campanian brewer, once entering the dining room with a full bucket of fresh milk, felt unwell; parents immediately guessed that she was pregnant. The obstinate girl does not want to say who the father of the future child is, … Read more
The narrator, at the request of M. de P., goes to the Catalan town of Ill. He must examine all the ancient monuments in the area, which will indicate the local lover of antiquity, M. de Peyrorad. On the way the narrator learns from his guide that a copper idol of the pagan goddess has … Read more