In the “NB” section - “Three Monologues” by the Italian Claudio Magris (1939), in recent years, as stated in the introduction by the translator of the monologues Valery Nikolaev, Italy’s main contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first monologue is from the perspective of a madman who enters into complex relationships with female voices on answering machines; the second is a monologue of a man overwhelmed by the fear of life in the present and dreaming of “being already ex”; and the third - a speech from oblivion, on behalf of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus...

Foreign literature, 2016 No. 08