Saksagan
A Domestic Animal part 1
Shimazaki Toson (1871-1943)
Shimazaki Toson began writing as a poet of the new era, but after the Russo-Japanese war, he turned to naturalistic fiction. He...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 5
This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation.
And then, one day, he noticed that his healthy foot was growing...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 4
Everything real seemed to disappear; only dimly lighted, vacant space remained, pervaded by the smell of chloroform. He seemed to be in the interior...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 3
“Let my fate go whither it listeth.”
In the darkest corner of a ward, in the bed marked number twenty- four, a farm laborer of...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 2
“Anton, my dear fellow,” the other, said, “well, you understand what I mean; God knows. You may be sure . . . confound it...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 1
Stefan Zeromski (1864-1925)
Zeromski is an intensely dynamic writer. Not so popular as his older contemporary Prus, he excels in the psychological analysis of his...
The Massacre of the Innocents part 8
Round the churchyard a multitude gathered in front of a long low green farmhouse. The proprietor wept bitterly as he stood in his door-way....
The Massacre of the Innocents part 7
One family, who had concealed themselves in the cellar of a large house, stood at the gratings and wildly lamented, while the father desperately...
The Massacre of the Innocents part 6
There had been a kermesse in this house: relatives had come to feast on waffles, hams, and custards. At the sound of the smashing...
The Massacre of the Innocents part 5
The parishioners inquired of him in undertones, “What does he say? What is he going to do?” Others, seeing the curt: in the orchard,...
