“...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...

“...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...

“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...

“...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, ...

“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...

“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...

“The Tale “Confessors”” is among other works by P.D. Boborykina, which have appeared in recent years, represents a kind of happy exception. It more successfu...

“...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...