Der von Jochen Schubert herausgegebene Band bietet eine umfassende Auswahl aus dem erzählerischen Werk Heinrich Bölls und folgt dabei mehreren Gesichtspunkten: Neben den bekanntesten Erzählungen stehen solche, die aufgrund ihres Themas und ihrer Erzählweise repräsentativ sind, und andere, die bisher noch gar nicht oder nur an schwer zugänglichen Orten veröffentlicht wurden. Die insgesamt 75...

Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

The guide contains basic information about the phonetics, grammar, vocabulary and spelling of the Ukrainian language in comparison with the English language. The rules are illustrated with examples, and various exercises are also provided. Words and expressions are translated into English and vice versa.

July 2014, Donbass. A student named Zhanna returns to her native mining village from Kharkov to look after her dying mother. At the same time, their young neighbor nicknamed Valet and an elderly secret service officer named Korol arrive from Moscow - both on assignment from the Russian military command. Something terrible and irreparable is about to happen. But this is not the first time...

In this issue: Alexander Genis Literary Nonfiction by A. Genis, The View from the Window, Red Bread, USA from A to Y, Brodsky in New York, Darkness and Silence: The Art of Subtraction. These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism - Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant...

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Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Russian Language. Over 5 000 entires!

Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. From it, Repin painted one of the Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. He was not only a Moscow legend, but also a chronicler of Moscow.

As the story opens, mysterious goings-on ruffle the self-satisfied suburban world of the Dursleys, culminating in a trio of strangers depositing the Dursleys' infant nephew Harry in a basket on their doorstep. After 11 years of disregard and neglect at the hands of his aunt, uncle and their swinish son Dudley, Harry suddenly receives a visit from a giant named Hagrid, who informs Harry that his...