This is how one Frenchman described hell: “J'al vu l'ombre d'un cocher, qul avec I'ombre d'une brosse frottait I'ombre d'un carross.”

Brothers Karamaz...

In each of the short stories of the Swiss writer Adelheid Duvanel (1936–1996), behind the uniqueness of the author's intonation, a whole cosmos is discerned ...

The book contains stories and stories by the classic of Swiss literature Jeremiah Gotthelf (1797–1854). In his work, Gotthelf touches on the problems of cont...

The book presents two author's collections of early "small prose" by the outstanding Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) - "The Works of Fritz Kocher" (19...

The place that each era occupies in the historical process can be determined much more accurately if we analyze not its judgments about itself, but inconspic...

Alexander von Humboldt is a famous German scientist who made important discoveries in geology, geography, mining, meteorology, astronomy, physics, chemistry,...

Gerwart Walden (1878–1941) was a German gallerist and founder of the international art movement “Sturm”, who lived in Moscow in the 1930s. In the first Russi...

The essay for the stage by the Austrian writer and playwright, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek was written in the spirit and on the material of Richard W...

“Art is only perfect and devoid of artificiality when it is more than art. This is Florence, where the soul feels the amazing certainty and reliability of th...

“Ornament of the Mass” is a collection of articles by German sociologist and cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), united by the theme of contemp...