The deceitfulness of Parisian life is set from the first story, from the shopkeepers going out of town once a year to eat on the grass, hear the nightingale, copulate at the call.
Old, old song: "When you get home, soldier..." And then what? And then - the country is in ruins. And then - poverty, crisis, despair of some - and frenzied ...
“Love thy neighbor” is a novel about German emigrants forced to wander around pre-war Europe. They hide, they starve, they sneak across borders, many...
Mademoiselle Maria Bashkirtseva died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five, having lived a short but very bright life. She was an extraordinarily gifted girl...
“The sailboat “Troitsa”, loaded with wheat, weighed anchor in the evening and directed its way to the shores of Dalmatia. She slowly floated along the calm river...
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the greatest English-language prose writers of the 19th century. "Sift the world's literature - Dickens will remain" - these words belong to.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1864–1928) is one of the greatest Spanish prose writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In masterfully written works, the writer recreated ...
A study of the life of an outstanding and mysterious person, thanks to whom (or through whose fault) the expression "gray cardinal" entered all European languages. About...
One day, life breaks its normal, habitual course - and turns into a wild, ever-increasing whirlwind of events that captures many people into its orbit ...
"The second oldest profession" - or the "third force"? "Sharks of the pen" - or "telekillers"? As soon as they did not name journalists! The morning of the TV channel begins with.
W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) - German writer, poet and literary historian, lecturer at the University of East Anglia, author of four novels and several collections ...
