Criticism

Alexey Aleshkovsky - Afterword to the book of poems by his father, Yuz Aleshkovsky.

“...We will not dwell in detail on the social likes and dislikes of Ada Negri, we will not examine the question of the duality of her spiritual world: the qu...

“...The main misfortune of all humanity, according to Mr. Menshikov, lies precisely in the fact that the vital energy accumulated in the depths of patriarcha...

“Among the motley crowd of “folk” types depicted in Ostrovsky’s comedies, one thing is missing: the most talented of Russian playwrights, who gave the first ...

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) attributes Wodehouse's misdeeds to the Berlin radio broadcasts to his heavenly state of mind: “None of his heroes tasted the forbidd...

“Before us are three volumes of dramatic works of the book by A.I. Sumbatov. The action of his dramas is usually played out in an interesting social setting....

“...for the first time Mr. Chekhov brings before his readers a “positive” type. The heroine of the story not only breaks the shackles that connected her with...

“Avdeev is now an almost forgotten novelist. This is a writer of the distant past... but a writer who played a very prominent role in this distant past and e...

“G. Timkovsky, as has been repeatedly noted by literary criticism, belongs to the number of fiction writers of the general humane trend; he is usually charac...

“Gogol is the bearer of a “medieval”, mystical-ascetic worldview. Gogol marks the moment of awakening of Russian social consciousness. Gogol does not begin a...

“Of the news that thick magazines managed to give us this year, the story by V. Veresaev “At the Turning” is of especially outstanding interest... Actually, ...

“...if we are based on the words of Mrs. A. Verbitskaya herself, it turns out that we are dealing with a writer who is undoubtedly in the forefront of the pr...