This volume contains works by different authors dedicated to the work of the state security and intelligence agencies of the USSR at different times in histo...

– Allow me to introduce myself: caperang Gnido Valerian Valerievich, with a cheerful, clear step, probably in the recent past of a military man, marched into...

The Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski (1868–1927) is inscribed in the annals of European modernism as a definite cult phenomenon. His success was guarant...

The stories of Gennady Gor, Leonid Rakhmanov, Mikhail Slonimsky were written in the late twenties and early thirties of the last century. In them, elegant fa...

Days of Wrath is a book full of intoxicating smells and ominous secrets, on the pages of which madness reigns. But, on the other hand, this is a piercingly t...

“The Great Flea Market” is one of the first mature novels of the most widely read French classic of the 20th century. Romain Gary (real name Katsev) publishe...

Hélène Burr’s “Diary,” with a foreword by future Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, was published in France in 2008 and immediately became a literary and social...

Poetic miniatures with philosophical overtones by Anne-Lou Steininger (1963) translated from French by Natalia Mavlevich. “Collector of Illusions” by Rose-Ma...

The novels “Biography of Hunger” and “Love Sabotage” are autobiographical, if you believe the author-character, the author-werewolf, who plays with the reade...

In a confusion of feelings, Vasily Karpovich, a completely non-drinker, approached the cupboard, thoughtfully looked at the bottles of selected alcoholic bev...

Boris Yampolsky (1912 - 1972) began publishing as a teenager. Before the war he graduated from the Literary Institute. At the front he was a correspondent fo...