“...With amazing consistency, Mr. Solovyov resorts to such polemical techniques, which, as far as we know, none of the writers allowed himself to resort to, ...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“The newest Russian literature, at first glance, puts an irresistible weapon into the hands of opponents of Marxism: it proves, apparently in the most brilli...

“...The secret of worshiping Dostoevsky has thus been revealed. In the most typical hero of Dostoevsky, a certain part of the modern intelligentsia sees thei...

“...Most of the “new” people did not assimilate progressive ideas in the same way as these ideas were assimilated by the lonely heroes and ascetics of though...

“...everyone considers himself to have the right to make political predictions in accordance with his inclinations and desires. Karl Amalia Gringmuth, for ex...

“In the East – both Far and Near – clouds are gathering, the menacing specter of a pan-European war is emerging more and more clearly on the horizon. Europe ...

“...if we are based on the characterization that Evgeniy Solovyov gave himself, one could only welcome him, be amazed at the unforgivable maliciousness of hi...

“The Russian intelligentsia is again experiencing a transitional era, again standing at a crossroads. Idols in which they recently so fervently believed are ...

“The revolutionary forces of the Russian proletariat have dried up; The labor movement has reached a dead end, from which it will not get out for a long, lon...