Russian modernism in literature

In the first decade of the 20th century, many new trends and personalities of future famous authors begin to develop in Russian literature. The most unusual property that the Silver Age possessed was the increased attention of society to art. This pushed people to self-improvement, implementation

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Kotik Letaev

Here, on a steep-cutting line, I cast a long and dumb look into the past. The first moments of consciousness on the threshold of my three-year-old - get up to me. I am thirty five years old. I stand in the mountains, amid the chaos of steep cliffs, piling clumps, gleams of diamond peaks. The past is known to me and is swirling with clubs of events. To me ...

What is the difference between kindness and mercy?

(338 words) Kindness and mercy are one of the main human qualities that determine a person. Indeed, when we see before us a sensitive, compassionate person who is ready to help, support, then it is with these concepts that we characterize him. But what is the difference between these words?...

Tatar desert

The action takes place at an indefinite time, most reminiscent of the beginning of our century, and the unknown state depicted on its pages is very similar to Italy. This is a novel about time eating life. The irreversibility of time is the fateful destiny of man, night is the highest point of tragic tension ...

Dance of Death

The captain of artillery and his wife Alice, a former actress, live in a fortress on the island. They are sitting in the living room, located in the fortress tower, and talking about the upcoming silver wedding. The captain believes that it must be noted without fail, while Alice would prefer to hide their family from prying eyes ...

Above the cuckoo's nest

The narrative hero Bromden - the son of a white woman and an Indian leader - pretends to be weak, deaf and dumb. He has long been in a psychiatric hospital, fleeing within its walls from the cruelty and indifference of "normal America." However, the years spent by Bromden in a psychiatric hospital make themselves felt ...

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Horse legs

An unremarkable employee in the Beijing branch of Mitsubishi, Osino Handzaburo, suddenly died before he was thirty years old. According to the conclusion of Professor Yamai, director of Tongren Hospital, Hanzaburo died from a stroke. But Hanzaburo himself did not think it was a blow. He did not even think that he was dead. Simply ...

History of eternity

The works included in the cycle “History of Eternity” are united primarily by the interest of the author, they are distinguished by their peculiarities, a certain cyclical nature, repeatability of events in time, isolation ... One of the stories included in the “History of Eternity” is “Approaching Almutasim” . The story is ...

Tristan

The beginning of January. In the sanatorium "Einfrid", where they are mainly treated for consumptive, a businessman, Kleterian, comes with his wife Gabriela, who is sick with something pulmonary. Husband thinks problems with respiratory throat. The wife is young and charming, everyone in the sanatorium admires her appearance. The husband tells everyone ...

The end of Chertophanov

Two years later, all sorts of disasters fell on Pantelei Yeremeich Chertopkhanov. The first of them was the most sensitive for him: Masha left him. Chertophanov was convinced that the fault was the young neighbor, retired Ulan captain Jaff, but the reason for everything was a vagabond gypsy ...

On the mountains

From the mouth of the Oka River to Saratov and further down the right side of the Volga is called “Mountains”. They are engaged in tillage and latrine. Marko Danilych Smolokurov in his youth was going to get married together with his elder brother, but Mokey had gone to Astrakhan on an urgent matter. It was by ...

Billiards at half past nine

September 6, 1958. On this day, one of the main characters of the novel, the architect Heinrich Femel, turns eighty years old. An anniversary is a good occasion to evaluate your life. More than fifty years ago, he appeared in this city, almost at the last moment submitted his project for construction ...

US Literature

Europeans

Brother and sister - Felix Young and Baroness Eugenia Munster - for the first time in their lives come to their mother's homeland in America. They grew up in Europe, feel like Europeans and anxiously await a meeting with the Wentworth family - uncles, cousins ​​and cousins. Felix is ​​the first to come to meet relatives, ...

Soviet literature

Goat song

The beginning of the 20s. Petersburg, painted "greenish, flickering and blinking, terrible color, phosphoric." The author, appearing in the preface, ends his opening speech with the words: “I do not like Petersburg, my dream has ended”. The hero of the novel, Teptyolkin, is a “mysterious creature” - long, thin, ...

Nonfixing

Positioning: the battle for the minds

We are so overloaded with information that our brain automatically weeds out most brands. We are constantly overloaded with information. With the development of the media, the impact of marketing and advertising has grown exponentially. The average American family has been watching television daily for more than seven hours, ...

British literature

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

“Two people, dressed in costumes of the Elizabethan era, spend time in an area devoid of any characteristic features.” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play toss; Guildenstern takes a coin from his wallet, flips it, and Rosencrantz, watching her fall, says “eagle” and lowers the coin ...