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Photographic portrait of French poet and playwright Jacques Prévert on a city street
The best way not to move forward is to follow one constant idea. The French poet and dramatist Jacques Prévert
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The language of Dostoevsky is a subject not merely interesting but essential to understanding his work
The language of Dostoevsky is a subject not merely interesting but essential to understanding his work. Is it possible to grasp the personality of a character without delving into his vocabulary? This is surely one of the first steps to take. Of course, many of the words will prove to
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Mikhail Belomlinsky drew a house for Kostyor magazine where Valya and Baba Yaga live
Valya and Baba Yaga, or, as the estate agents say, "Wonderful, considerate neighbours!" Illustration for the magazine Kostyor. Mikhail Samuilovich Belomlinsky
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Vladimir Nabokov Hunting Butterflies
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Surrealists and the Dadaists Who Joined Them, from Tzara to Man Ray
Surrealists in Paris in 1933: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel and Man Ray. Tristan Tzara was a poet and a founder of Dadaism. In early 1930, together with Francis Ponge and Paul Nougé, he supported the first issue of
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This photograph could grace the cover of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's «The Shadow of the Wind»
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Émile Zola's photographic legacy and the exhibition of his photographs in Royan
Few people know it, but Émile Zola was a keen photographer. He devoted the last years of his life to this pursuit, creating thousands of remarkable pictures which unquestionably deserve attention as early monuments of the photographic art. Last year the French seaside town of Royan held a large exhibition
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Birds born in cages think flying is an illness
Alejandro Jodorowsky photo: Robert Doisneau
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Usually I choose with ease, but in the case of Miss Marple and Poirot it is impossible to say which of them is my favourite
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Batyushkov's poem on a shepherdess's grave and Poussin's painting “The Arcadian Shepherds”
Подруги милые! в беспечности игривой Под плясовой напев вы резвитесь в лугах. И я, как вы, жила в Аркадии счастливой, И я, на утре дней, в сих рощах и лугах Минутны радости вкусила: Любовь в мечтах златых мне счастие сулила: Но что ж досталось мне в сих радостных местах? — Могила!
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The book “Pot nebesny” about the Russian Olympic team at the Beijing Games in summer 2008
They helped us not to lose. They played, but did not win. They prevented us from winning. They did not prevent us. They were unwell. Quite possibly the wittiest table of contents in history. Though the title, "Heavenly Sweat", is not without merit either. A book about the
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A fictional book about snakes in the 1941 film “The Lady Eve” and its nod to Freud
Are Snakes Necessary? Hugo Martzditz A book with this title is being read by the hero of the 1941 film The Lady Eve, Charles Pike, heir to millions, in the bar of an ocean liner sailing from South America. He has spent a year in the jungle studying snakes. Which