Modern prose

Have you ever loved so much that you literally breathed this person? Have you done everything you could for this love? The story is like a confession about o...

There is discord in old Martinovna’s family: her son-in-law has grown an unprecedented harvest of elite wheat on her land, the profit from the sale will also...

The poem “By Right of Memory” (1967-1969, published in 1987) describes the tragic fate of Tvardovsky’s father.

“The Confession of Pastor Bürg” is one of the early stories of the Swiss prose writer, Goncourt Prize winner Jacques Chesset.

Criminal love for the yo...

How long do you experience the joy of fulfilling a wish? Can you stop and not crave more? In a world stuck together after World War 3, Emma receives a long-a...

A romantic story about a girl who suddenly understands something about herself.

Having returned to the farm, on the third day the author went to visit his neighbor, Baba Katya, and at the same time get some farm news.

Once upon a time there lived two twin brothers with very different destinies. One is smart, handsome and successful, and the second... The second dreamed of ...

Wolfdietrich Schnurre is one of the most popular satirists and humorists in Germany. The story is included in the collection of autobiographical novel in sto...

After the death of his wife, Yura the driver, a single father of a mentally retarded daughter, became addicted to playing poker. But fate mixed his cards whe...

The final edition of the poem “Dog Poems” by Yuz Aleshkovsky, which he completed in 2010.

"The Red Carnation* is a small masterpiece of a harmless-looking, photographically (more precisely, phonographically) recording of everyday life, which, howe...