Журнал Знамя. 2018 (8)

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...

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,...

Третья книга сверхпопулярной саги "Сумерки"!Сиэтл потрясен серией загадочных убийств: это продолжает творить свою месть загадочная и кровожадная вампирша. И вновь Белле угрожает опасность...Между тем приближается выпускной бал — одно из прекраснейших собы

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.

Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait, that's just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers, and one of the country's most feared men.

The era in which Andrei Bitov lived ... These are the years of the thaw - a time of hope, a bright entry into literature, and a period of 'stagnation', when the main novel 'Pushkin's House' could only be read in samizdat. And perestroika, and the turbulent 1990s, and transformations in the country - a different breath, changes in life and work. An intellectual writer, a unique interlocutor -...

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...