S. de Bergerac Other Light, or State and Empire of the Moon At nine in the evening the author and four of his friends returned from the same house in the vicinity of Paris. A full moon shone in the sky, attracting the gaze of the revelers and arousing wit already sharpened on the pavement … Read more
Venus has a cold. Speaking about the coldness of Europe and Europeans, she constantly sneezes and wraps her marble shoulders in dark sable fur. “The more rude a woman will treat a man, the more she will be loved and worshiped by them.” Pleasant companion! However, we must wake up – Severin is already waiting … Read more
The story “Get up and go” – the story of the relationship between father and son, on whose behalf the narrator-author acts. Divided into relatively short twenty-two chapters, she honestly talks about filial feelings, sincere and spontaneous, passing from adoration to pity, from deep devotion to duty, from sincere love for condescension and even anger. … Read more
M. Navarre Heptameron Ten noble gentlemen and ladies who went to the waters, stuck on the way back because of the autumn mudslides and attacks of the robbers. They find shelter in the monastery and wait for the workers to build a bridge across the spilled river, which should take ten to twelve days. Thinking … Read more
The forerunners of postmodernism were modernism and avant-gardism, which sought to revive the traditions of the Silver Age. Russian postmodernism in literature rejected the mythologization of reality, to which the previous literary trends gravitated. But at the same time, he creates his own mythology, resorting to it as the most understandable cultural language. Postmodern writers … Read more
There are few of them, but their life blossoms. N. Chernyshevsky The new XXI century will be the century of the greatest scientific discoveries, because today’s state of many scientific trends can be defined as follows: they are at the very threshold of discovery. Another step, another – and new lights will flash bright, equal … Read more
On one of the hottest days of 1853, two young people were lying on the shores of the Moscow River in the shade of a blooming linden tree. The twenty-three-year-old Andrei Petrovich Bersenev has just graduated as the third candidate of the Moscow University, and an academic career awaited him. Pavel Yakovlevich Shubin was a … Read more
Part 1. In the rear Svejk is a former soldier who left the service a few years ago because of his idiocy. Now Ċ vejk lives in Prague, trades with the sale of dogs and, in addition to idiocy, suffers from rheumatism. The novel begins in June 1914, after the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. This … Read more
At the end of VII century. The Arabs conquered North Africa from the Byzantines, and reached the Atlantic Ocean. They managed to convert the local Berber tribes to Islam. In 710, the Arabs crossed the strait, which the Greeks called the Hercules Pillars, and invaded the territory of Spain. The coastal rock, to which the … Read more
Pyotr Alekseevich Marakulin colleagues of his fun and carelessness infected. Sam – a narrow-chested, mustache with a thread, about thirty years old, but he felt almost twelve years old. Marakulin was famous for his handwriting, the reports showed the letter after the letter: he scribbled exactly as if he were beading down, and more than … Read more