Culture and art

“The pessimistic view of the current state of Russian fiction has, as is known, become very widespread. “Literary timelessness” is the subject of constant co...

“An elaborately decorated vase; it is split in half, but its halves are connected and fastened with old, rotting rope. Forest violets have sprouted in a vase...

“When a few years ago the passion for “new art” in our country took on the character of an acute public fad, when not only young writers who had just begun t...

“The Tale “Confessors”” is among other works by P.D. Boborykina, which have appeared in recent years, represents a kind of happy exception. It more successfu...

“...indeed, by the general nature of his worldview, by the general direction of his literary activity, by the artistic techniques that he uses when conveying...

“L. Melshin ... belongs to the number of writers “swimming against the general tide.” He is a representative of a generation of intellectuals leaving the his...

“The heroes of Maxim Gorky’s stories and tales attracted everyone’s attention as people endowed with unusual spiritual strength, as heroes of iron will and e...

“...G. Nevedomsky develops a program of “free” art, which he contrasts not only with “ideological” art, which has become widespread since the “sixties,” but ...

“...French critics, like the famous Lanson, reviewing the literary movement in France from the end of the 18th century. until the end of the 19th century. us...

“On the book market at the moment, everything that delivers any kind of “sharp” pleasure and excitement, everything that artificially raises the vital activi...

“...Levitov...in his works, presented a picture of a “stopped” life. His heroes are, in the words of one modern fiction writer, people who have “lost life” a...

“Today marks seventy-five years since the death of Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov. “To fade before you have time to bloom” is the usual lot of Russian writ...