Criticism

“...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...

“...The new intellectuals came from slightly different social strata than the raznochintsy-“sixties”: they belonged more to the “people”; they were brought u...

To the fiftieth anniversary of the death of V.A. Zhukovsky. “The poet is the chosen one of Fate, the poet is the priest, the poet is an aristocrat of the spi...

“...The latest, autumn books of “thick” magazines delivered a lot of documents testifying to the reduced well-being of the “intelligent proletariat.” Let us ...

“It’s not uncommon, especially lately, to hear the opinion circulating among the public that Nadson is a typical “whiner.” Critics, in turn, pay mainly atten...