Foreign literature

On January 12, 1943, Operation Iskra began to break the blockade of Leningrad... We present the book by Oris Oris “The Ballad of Siege Leningrad in Poems and...

Poems without titles. Fragments of all my memories. By the age of forty, an autobiography will be released, but it is better if it is published posthumously....

A fairy tale from the culinary and linguistic series “Table Poems for Children.” Imitation of the gangster poems of Roald Dahl, known for his cynical interpr...

This short work reveals the personality and creativity of Igor Chekomazov, one of the most mysterious characters in the book “A fallen leaf flew up onto a br...

The Skull of Connemara is a gritty, dark comedy. Everything that distinguishes McDonagh’s dramaturgy, naked psychologism, the absurd dead end of recognizable...

The heroes of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” live on a small abandoned Irish island, where everyone knows, loves and hates each other at the same time. Everyone ...

In the play, the action takes place not in mythopoetic Ireland, but in modern America. McDonagh delivers a daring, ironic, hilariously funny and, indeed, emi...

The Lonely West is a cruel and dark comedy. Everything that distinguishes McDonagh’s dramaturgy, naked psychologism, the absurd dead end of recognizable life...

The “Nothing Funny” section is dedicated to the virtuoso of word games and mathematician, the Englishman James Albert Lyndon (1914–1979). Translation of poem...

The three detectives are his young friends Bob Andrews, Pete Crenshaw and Jupiter Jones. They live in a town near Hollywood. Their stronghold is a salvage wa...

Which of those predicted in the middle of the last century came true, and which remains fantasy today? We have already written about why it was not possible ...

William Trevor's play “Beyond the Pale” (The title plays on the English expression “beyond the Pale”, meaning “beyond what is permitted.” At the same time, “...