Sh. De Coster The Legend of Eulenspiegel The book is preceded by the “Foreword of the Owl”, which gives a double interpretation of the name “Ulenspiegel”. According to one version it means “I am your mirror”, on the other – “an owl and a mirror”. The action of the legend takes place in Flanders in … Read more
Nobody knows what awaits a person in the future. What kind of life he will have, what kind of work, what kind of family. But it is in childhood that we lay the foundation for our future life, for our profession. I want to reflect on the future that awaits me. First of all, I … Read more
Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince Winter has come, but the Swallow has decided to stay with the Prince and told him, already blind, about Egypt, where the bird so sought. After the Swallowtail leaflet after the leaflet handed out all the gold that covered the sculpture, the winged helper died. The prince’s tin heart split … Read more
In the last days of May, the soldiers and the marquee of the Paris battalion “Red Hat” stumble into the Sodreysk forest to the Breton peasant woman with three children – a baby girl and two boys a little older. Michelle Flechard was killed by her husband and burnt the hut-without a piece of bread, … Read more
AP Platonov Fro The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses for her any meaning, she even throws the railway communication and signaling. Frosya’s father, Nefed Stepanovich, retired by age, but continues to miss … Read more
Irina Bezrukova is a Russian actress. Irina was born on April 11, 1965 in Volgodonsk. In the childhood years of her biography Irina Bezrukova was extremely shy. But then, after sorting herself out, I decided to enter the theater department of the Palace of Pioneers. Despite the fact that she was not accepted, she did … Read more
The story “Gifts of the Magi” was written in 1906. Since then, just over a hundred years have passed. During this time, language, life, culture, the Revolution, the formation and disintegration of the USSR changed. With certainty, we can say that Henry used several unknown words for us. Therefore, in order not to find myself … Read more
Sophocles Antigone In Athens they said: “Above all in human life is the law, and the unwritten law is higher than written.” The unwritten law is eternal, it is given by nature, on it is held every human society: it commands to honor the gods, to love relatives, to pity the weak. The written law … Read more
Pietro Aretino The philosopher In the prologue the author reports that he saw in a dream and a fairy tale about the Perugian Andreuccio (the character of the fifth novel of the second day in the “Decameron” by Boccaccio – his name Aretino jokingly awarded his hero), and the story of the false philosopher, who … Read more
The rarest gift of the colorist was shown by Mikhail Alexandrovich in his film “To the Night”, created in 1900. It was necessary to have a truly phenomenal visual memory in order to capture the complex gamut of the conceived canvas. The night is approaching. It is chilling from the dark expanses of the ancient … Read more