Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ‘the disease of modern man' in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are...

Основная цель учебного пособия — развитие и активизация у иностранных учащихся навыков профессионального общения на актуальные общественно значимые темы с использованием различных вариантов грамматических конструкций русского языка.В каждом из 14 уроков пособия содержатся тексты по глобальным проблемам современности, задания на отработку лексики, грамматики, развитие речи (устной и...

This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

The adapted text of the popular novel. Includes comments, exercises, keys, glossary, illustrations.

The last, most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky addresses the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy.

Level B1. This book is intended for students who speak Russian at the first certification level. Post-text educational material is presented in the headings: Control - questions on the understanding of general factology; Motivation - issues that establish the causal relationships of reactions, actions and actions of characters; Discussion - issues that contribute to a more serious understanding...

The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final...