The eight stories that make up Octaedro - a figure as geometric as it is mysterious, as perfect as it is reticent - mix certain social and political content that Cortázar had addressed in Libro de Manuel (1973) with his most recurrent themes: love, dreams, illness, death, the threshold between the everyday and the fantastic.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from...

In the collection 'Stories of A.P. Chekhov in Russian and Kazakh' included 10 stories by A.P. Chekhov in the Russian original and translated into the Kazakh language: 'Smear' (1883), 'Grisha' (1886), 'Evil Boy' (1883), 'Joy' (1883), 'Thick and Thin' (1883), ' Chameleon' (1884), 'Mysterious nature' (1883), 'Mask' (1898), 'Order' (1884), 'Reference' (1883). We hope that the book will be useful to...

The reader is offered a commented edition of Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, one of the central works of Russian literature of the Silver Age. The symbolist rethinking of the two-hundred-year-old cultural mythology of Petersburg is combined in this book with the author's original view of the revolutionary events of the early 20th century.

The stories are illustrated by the famous artist Oleg Kominarets, who skillfully, vividly and reliably conveyed the coloring of the writer's immortal works.

Coming from a provincial working-class family, Platonov wholeheartedly accepted the October Revolution, and the more interesting is the fact that his works convey with unprecedented force a personal ideological tragedy, unusually clearly expressed in ‘The Pit.’ The very idea of building a ‘Common Proletarian House’ turns ‘The Pit’ into a dystopia that is shocking in its power, where the details...

Bored already? Then read this book! It: - is not a play in verse, but a play in verse and comics (which is a devilish difference); - clarifies the subtleties and nuances of a bygone culture - for example, why the play was considered scandalous (how could a young man stay in a girl's room until the morning?!); - tells about the life, everyday life and customs of the high Moscow society of the...

Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming ‘Count Malvolio’ only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with...

Schlump, written by Hans Herbert Grimm, was published anonymously in 1928 and was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity, and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of...

Coming from a provincial working-class family, Platonov wholeheartedly accepted the October Revolution, and the more interesting is the fact that his works convey with unprecedented force a personal ideological tragedy, unusually clearly expressed in ‘The Pit.’ The very idea of building a ‘Common Proletarian House’ turns ‘The Pit’ into a dystopia that is shocking in its power, where the details...