In our idea of the Middle Ages, the figure of the knight is invariably in the foreground. Crusades and knightly tournaments, the worship of beautiful ladies ...

The work of Georg Heim (1887-1912) opens up special possibilities in German poetry. In expressionism, which gravitated towards abstraction (“It is not a fall...

The publication is based on a complete translation of the original Old Provençal “Lives of Troubadours” of the 13th-14th centuries, which is still familiar t...

The founder of modern lyricism, the world-famous poet of the Italian Renaissance Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), not only changed the content of poetry, but ...

This publication is an attempt to recreate the complex and contradictory portrait of the Wallachian ruler Vlad Basarab, whose gloomy image was used by the Ir...

Nelly SACKS (1891–1970) was a German poet. In 1966 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: “in recognition of outstanding lyrical and dramatic works i...

Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. In his poems there was a place for a wide variety of thoughts, feelings, fantasies: this...

This edition presents the novel Elixirs of Satan, dedicated to Hoffman's favorite theme - the destructive effect of the dark half of the human personality. M...

The dilogy of the German writer Heinrich Mann about the French king Henry IV is deservedly considered a masterpiece of historical prose, comparable to the be...

From an article by A. V. Gulyga (editor of the publication): The book was published under the pseudonym “Bonaventure” at the beginning of 1805 in the series ...

This book is an analysis of the activity of the human subconscious, amazing in its depth. The plot of the novel is built on the motif of duality, incest and ...