Роман «Школа для дураков» — одно из самых значительных явлений русской литературы конца ХХ века. По определению самого автора, это книга «об утонченном и странном мальчике, страдающем раздвоением личности… ко торый не может примириться с окружающей действительностью» и который, приобщаясь к миру взрослых, открывает присутствие в мире любви и смерти. По-прежнему остаются актуальными слова...

Als »ein Volksstück und die Parodie dazu« bezeichnete Alfred Polgar Ödön von Horváths Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Mit dem Kleist-Preis ausgezeichnet, wurde Horváths Volksstück 1931 an Max Reinhardts Deutschem Theater in Berlin unter der Regie von Heinz Hilpert uraufgeführt, »das bitterste, das bitterböseste Stück neuer Literatur«, wie Kurt Pinthus schrieb. In der New York Times war zu...

Йозеф Рот (1894—1939) - выдающийся австрийский писатель, классик мировой литературы ХХ века. Стефан Цвейг писал, что у Йозефа Рота «была русская натура, я сказал бы даже, карамазовская, это был человек больших страстей» и «ему были свойственны русская глубина чувств, русское истовое благочестие».«Марш Радецкого» - это история трех представителей семейства фон Тротта, преданных слуг...

Zweigs frühe Erzählung entstand 1913 und wurde noch im gleichen Jahr publiziert, erscheint hier aber in der von ihrem Autor überarbeiteten Fassung des Buchdrucks von 1925, die Zweig um zahlreiche, »aus seiner späteren Sicht offenbar allzu ›expressive‹ Passagen gekürzt« hat, so der Herausgeber Michael Scheffel. Die beklemmende Atmosphäre der Geschichte, in der die Hauptfigur von einer ihr...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

A lonely old man and a tender puppy met and became friends. 'Warm friendship and devotion became happiness, because everyone understood everyone and each did not demand more from the other than what he could give.' But grief happened - and the dog was left alone, though among people, and went in search of a beloved owner.

The comedy of A.S. Griboedov 'Woe from Wit' was already written over a century and a half ago, but a picturesque picture of morals, a gallery of living types and eternally sharp irony still excite and captivate readers, teach them dignity and nobility. The true peak of Russian drama at the beginning of the 19th century, the play Woe from Wit, has been known to us since school years. But today...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castali

The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country...

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...