Child's prose

From the magazine “Foreign Literature” No. 09/1995

The collection of prose texts “The Voice Imitator” (1978) stands apart in the literary heritage of T. Bernhard. When it appeared, the book was perceived as s...

The novel “The Lost” (Der Untergeher, 1983; the title is difficult to translate into Russian: “Doomed”, “Descent”, “To the Bottom”) is one of Bernhard’s most...

Asia Bibi became the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death for blasphemy. What did Asia do? She, a Christian, brought water to the Muslims who wor...

Field biologists are an interesting phenomenon. These are exactly the people who can rush into the forest at night far outside the city to count birds by the...

Wheelchair driver Danil hates his life. But one day a strange young man appears to him and talks about the exchange of lives and alternative realities in whi...

Mishka is still small, but smart beyond his years and with his own quirks: he is friends with the “guest worker” Fatima, who paints cups. But one day everyth...

Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call “human.”In “Another Governess” a woman...

An electronic book does not have a direct printed counterpart. It includes two adventure stories by Igor Vsevolzhsky, published during the Great Patriotic Wa...

A poem for those who want to see divine beauty in everyday life and are willing to pay for it. Through the dialogues of the main character with her nymphs, l...