Criticism

In the “Literary Heritage” section there is an enthusiastic article by the very young Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) “Charles Baudelaire” translated from French b...

French poet, prose writer, cultural historian and essayist Yves Bonnefoy (1923), in two essays on Shakespeare, offers his understanding of the philosophical ...

“Terribly contemptuous and biased attitude towards the matter. However, it is not Merezhkovsky’s fault that his personal topic prevents him from paying any a...

“My friend, who returned from Stockholm the day before Strindberg’s death, brought me a large portrait of him. I look at these working shoulders, at the unru...

“Belgium is a small country with a big history. Its history is how this small country, squeezed from the south, west and east by powerful powers, and from th...

“Twenty years have passed since the physical death of Vladimir Solovyov, that is, the period of time is completely insignificant from a historical point of v...

“Thirty years have passed since the death of the “apostle of anarchy” - Bakunin. For thirty years, a line of officials in black frock coats tried to shield f...

“The words of one English critic are true when he says that in Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear,” “traps are laid everywhere for the readers.” Romeo's traged...

“D. V. Filosofov reproaches me in Rech for my article “Art and the Newspaper,” published in Russkaya Rumor. Filosofov entitled his article: “Solitary Aesthet...

“Some of you have seen, others will still see on the stage of our theater Schiller’s youthful tragedy “The Robbers.” The main characters there are siblings; ...

“At all times of human life, since people can remember themselves, there have been wars. Since states existed, wars have been started by governments and ende...

“For only 130 years the peoples of Europe have been fighting for their freedom. This is very little. After all, one person can live 130 years. And yet, a lot...