Modern prose

How good is Jorge Amado's language! Smooth and soft, melodious and strong. Each sentence, like a sea wave, covers you headlong with the salty life of distant...

Villon Francois (real name and surname Francois de Montcorbier, Montcorbier) (1431, Paris - after 1463), an outstanding French poet of the late Middle Ages. ...

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head ...

Joseph Brodsky is one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century. During his short life, according to current ideas, he erected a huge building of poe...

“This is happiness - not weighing the pros and cons, not planning the future, but succumbing to momentary emotion and doing what the soul requires. I want to...

The matter of death. In one city, murders of rich people began to appear; will Sergei and his partner Ivan be able to solve this crime if these murders conti...

Does a business woman have the time and energy for a truly deep, unique feeling? Or is her destiny – cynicism and loneliness? What can she do if her career s...

In the suburbs, mass murders began to appear, which are gaining more and more momentum, this matter must be properly investigated before these murders reach ...

The heroines of the novel are three friends, and all three, as luck would have it, are having a crisis in their personal lives. Supporting each other and try...

The book of prose by the remarkable modern Russian writer Natalia Slyusareva was compiled by the vivid documentary-memoir story “My Father is a General”, whi...

When the Soviet army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson ...

Reading Dostoevsky in Afghanistan becomes “crime without punishment”Rassoul remembers reading Crime and Punishment as a student of Russian literature in L...