In the club of a large industrial city – sold-out. The hall is packed full, people are standing in the aisles. The event is uncommon: a novel by a young local writer has been published. Participants in the readership conference praise the debutant: workdays are reflected accurately and brightly. The heroes of the book are … Read more
IOLANTA Lyrical opera in one act1 Libretto by M. I. Tchaikovsky Characters: Rene, the King of Provence Robert, Duke of Burgundy Vaudemont, Earl, Burgundian Knight Ebn-Hakia, a Moorish doctor Almeric, the squire of King René Bertrand, the gatekeeper of the palace Iolanthe, daughter of King René (blind) Marta, Bertrand’s wife, Iolanthe’s nurse Bass Baritone Tenor … Read more
Among the main gods, the Egyptians especially singled out a married couple – Osiris and Isis. Osiris was revered for teaching the Egyptians various crafts, treatment, showing how to build cities and houses, to grow cereals and grapes. Isis was the goddess of fertility. It was addressed to women with the help of the birth … Read more
Saul Bellow Duke Fifty-year-old professor of history and literature Moses Herzog wrote letters, wrote decisively to everyone in the world – people personally familiar and unfamiliar, living and deceased, relatives of former and existing, thinkers and presidents, publishers and fellow workers, church leaders and so on, to no one specifically, and then, happened, to himself … Read more
The action takes place in the 1850s. On the Texas prairie there are vans going – it’s moving from Louisiana to Texas, the ruined planter Woodley Poindexter. He is accompanied by Henry’s son, daughter Louise and nephew, retired captain Cassius Colhoun. Suddenly they lose track – before them scorched prairies. The path of the caravan … Read more
It was a long time ago, maybe forty years ago. In the early autumn, I returned from fishing on a mown meadow and near a small, dried-up boschazhina, overgrown with a tamnik, over a summer, I saw a bird. She heard me, sat down in a sloping bristle of sedge, hid, but my eye felt, … Read more
The action takes place in London, at the end of the XIX century Mr. Utterson, a notary, was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, and yet very sympathetic. He was strict with himself, but he showed indulgence to the weaknesses of his neighbors, preferring to help, not to blame. So he often had … Read more
Lucian Icaromenipp, go Zaoblachny flight Menippus tells the Friend about his extraordinary journey, striking the interlocutor with precise data on the distance from the Earth to the Moon, to the Sun and finally to the sky – the dwelling of the gods of the Olympians. It turns out that Menippus only returned to Earth today; … Read more
Yu. G. O’Neill The Moon for the stepsons of fate Events take us to Connecticut, the farmer’s house, Phil Hohen. The action takes place in early September 1923 and at the dawn of the next day. The three sons of Hogan fled from the house in turn, very disagreeable in the father’s way, and the … Read more
The tragedy takes place in the Netherlands, in Brussels, in 1567-1568, although in the play the events of these years unfold in a few weeks. In the city square, the townspeople compete in archery, they are joined by a soldier from the army of Egmont, he easily beats everyone and treats himself at his own … Read more