You will have a fascinating walk with the Author through the Parisian catacombs and through cities that are rapidly changing their appearance. You will find out whether genius is inherited, how the best ideas are born and how masterpieces perish. You have many amazing discoveries ahead: a real writer and a real princess, a real smart woman and genuine heroes of her time, not invented stories...

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

Stirlitz, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer. Max Otto von Stirlitz (Colonel Maxim Maximovich Isaev) won the love of millions of readers and became a truly national hero. Jokes tell about him and continue to argue about his prototypes. For many years, Julian Semenov received letters from readers with an address on the envelope: 'Moscow, the Union of Writers, Semenov for...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing,...

The hero of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' journalist Viktor Zolotarev receives an unusual task from a major newspaper: to write obituaries for prominent influential people, although they are all still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a participant in a major game of shadow structures, and getting out of it alive turns out to be an almost unrealistic task...

With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush....

Huragan Katrina spustoszył stany Luizjana i Missisipi w sierpniu 2005 roku. Pozostawił tym samym po sobie nie tylko straty materialne. Zrujnowane domostwa czy wypłukane przez wielką wodę cmentarze to tylko niektóre ich przykłady. Zostawił także traumę w psychice ludzi, którzy go przeżyli. Do miejscowości doświadczonej huraganem przyjeżdża dziewczyna z Polski. Ucieka przed trudnymi przeżyciami,...

Два романа английского писателя-фантаста Герберта Уэллса, «Человек-невидимка» и «Война миров», впервые увидевшие свет практически одновременно, в 1897 году, стали своего рода визитной карточкой автора и классикой «литературы предупреждения». История Гриффина – гениального ученого, осуществившего поразительный эксперимент, который навсегда отделил его от обыкновенных людей непереходимой стеной...

Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short, and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment. His only companion is Misha, the penguin he rescued from Kiev's Zoo, when it couldn't feed the animals anymore. Misha is the silent witness to Victor's despair, and joins in his celebration - fish and vodka - when Victor's luck seems to turn: he is commissioned to...

Kaffeehaus-Frühling, das von Helmut Peschina herausgegebene Wien-Lesebuch, zeigt die bravourösen feuilletonistischen Anfänge Joseph Roths.