Child's prose

France shortly before the First World War. The old bourgeois prejudices are still strong in provincial high society, snobbery and double morality still reign...

Valérie Larbaud is an outstanding French writer of the early 20th century, his works are included in the compulsory school curriculum, scientific monographs ...

A collection of translations of Breton legends and fairy tales, collected and processed at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. The book is i...

The Story of Iqbal is a novel about the life of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who was forced into slavery and became an activist and human rights activist. Iq...

The name of the American writer Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is known even to those who have never read her works. It was she who dubbed the young people retur...

Welcome to Kukborg, on the outskirts of the city dump, the “next world” for unnecessary and broken toys... It all starts like in a children's book - either a...

Øystein Lønn (b. 1936 in Kristiansand) is a renowned Norwegian writer. The first collection of short stories, “Procession” (1966), did not attract much atten...

Wolf Among Wolves is a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture--its economy and government--and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in We...

The hospital ward is a deceptive, insidious cocoon that little by little transforms the entire external space of reality - even the corridor - into something...

Hervé Guibert wrote “Gangsters” when he was already ill with an incurable disease. He never mentions her, but the narrative is filled with the fear of death....

“Am I scared?” - this question is asked by a young partisan, yesterday’s high school student, and today the political commissar of a partisan brigade, and th...

For the first time, an attempt is being made to bring together the works of Bella Akhmadulina, written over several decades of literary activity. This public...