Love among ruins. A complete collection of stories. In I.

Ivlin V (1903–1966) - an outstanding British writer, biographer and journalist, one of the thinnest English stylists, as well as a recognized master of black humor and murderously caustic satire (often permeated with hidden lyricism, behind which is guessed by a nostalgic feeling and autobiography of the plot ); The creator of grotesque-laugh fantasies, where the life’s life and ideological paradoxes of the British Empire, which are leaving into the past, are bizarrely refracted. Among the novels of Ivlin in such well -known works as “The handful of dust”, “Sensation”, “Return to Braidshead”, “unforgettable”, etc.

In addition, the writer's creative heritage includes several collections of stories; They were written in different years of life and in miniature form connected elements that made up the author of the greatest prose writer of the twentieth century. According to critics, Ivlin’s stories are a kind of quintessence of style, “sketches and falseters to longer works”, as well as a convincing evidence that one of the most revered and beloved English novelists was also an unsurpassed master of a small form.

This publication presents a complete collection of stories by Ilin WHO, most of which are published in Russian for the first time.