Culture and art

The writer, critic and journalist Michel Brodeur (1946), under the guise of a fictitious conversation with Andre Gide, gives a quick overview of modern Frenc...

A book for young parents and newborn children is not such a common occurrence in children's literature. The author, who carefully treats the folk tradition o...

The afterword to volume 20 of the collected works of Jules Verne talks about the influence of various events in the writer’s life and his political views on ...

Partylings are a type of demon. As befits demons - they are vile and stupid creatures. The chosen habitat was Modern Russian literature. They are of interest...

I have repeatedly heard from my friends about the sensational discoveries of the Russian scientist E.R. Muldashev. and was delighted that science had finally...

Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain.Adam meets Grace in...

“In Simplicissimus I found a good, although somewhat crude, caricature of the Wagnerian enthusiasm of the Munich people. Above, 1865 - a group of Munich citi...

“Rather evil than talented, the German humorist Safir said about Dresden that if he learns that the day of doomsday is approaching, he will hasten to the cap...

“In the atmosphere of practicality and self-praise that has shrouded modern Germany in a thick fog, the noblest ideas born of the creative genius of the nati...

“Tristan and Isolde” in the poems of the Middle Ages and in the musical drama of Richard Wagner.

Since science fiction writers watch films and read books - and some then also respond to what they have watched/read; and since Nolan's latest film caused mo...