Literary criticism

The collection includes two large sections: the first of them presents the works of writers grouped around the Sovremennik magazine in the first half of the ...

In this book, the outstanding Italian literary critic Franco Moretti examines in detail the figure of the bourgeois in European literature of the New Age. Mo...

The collection includes articles by authors from different countries exploring the problems of the relationship between the philosophical concepts of the Fre...

“In search of the great maybe” is a kind of detailed lecture notes on the history of foreign literature by the famous philologist, Honored Artist of the Russ...

If you are going to write a book, know that your impeccable style, beautiful metaphors, vivid characters, and authenticity of events may not work if the stor...

This collection includes selected stories by Alla Sergeevna Golovina (1909-1987), a poetess and prose writer of the “first wave” of emigration. And also her ...

Viktor Pelevin's prose became an expression of the doubts and fears of the generation of the 1990s, who tried to formulate and build new life strategies on t...

In the book of the classical philologist, professor of Leningrad State University O.M. Freudenberg (1890–1955) included three works: • “Introduction to the t...

The purpose of this tutorial is to teach the simplest operations of literary editing: recognizing errors, correcting them, and justifying such correction.

In December 2009, the St. Petersburg Mint of Goznak celebrates its 285th anniversary. The release of a book is dedicated to this event, which tells in a popu...

This book is another attempt to unravel Brodsky and talk about his life. Not dry literary criticism, but a study of the poet’s work through the fates of thre...

The monograph is a study of the laws of Osip Mandelstam's poetic semantics in the light of his philosophical and aesthetic ideas about words and works of art...