In the “Articles and Essays” section there is an article by Vera Kalmykova on one of the topics that inevitably preoccupies critics: what is the situation with the notorious, more than once predicted “death of the novel”? The author examines this issue in detail, focusing on the connection of the novel as a genre with a certain idea of the human personality. So, what happened to this performance - and therefore to the novel? “Big Style and Little Man, or Experience of the Survival of a Genre” is the title of the article..