Act One. About Love

«The whole world is a stage», — said Shakespeare, and it is hard to disagree with him. Indeed, our life is very much like a performance, where we play various roles. And we are ruled in this game by feelings, among which the most important is love. This is what will be discussed in the first act.

Before you is a collection that brings together different genres — from melodrama to fairy tale, from drama to essay, — and different authors who have attempted to explore this feeling. The word to the compiler, Ekaterina Zlatorunskaya: «Love escapes precise definition. It cannot be caught like butterflies, intoxicated with carbon dioxide, pinned down with a needle and classified with Leonardo-like precision — its species, genus, beginning, and end. Perhaps this is why texts about love are written, collections are compiled, and hearts are elevated and broken».

So, the curtain rises! Act One. About Love.