An extensive collection of “terrible” French prose provides a fairly broad panorama of Gothic literature. It opens with the repeatedly translated and publish...

The French publishing house Sey published a series called “Writers for All Seasons” and invited Bart to publish a book about himself in it. The proposed form...

The book is a top-level textbook intended for undergraduates and graduate students—people who already have basic knowledge of literary theory; The author set...

The collection “Miracles of Magic” consists of novels and short stories by foreign authors written in the “fantasy” genre. Creating an amazing world full of ...

Roger Caillois (1913–1978) - French anthropologist, sociologist and essayist. The monograph “Games and People,” published in 1958, became one of Caillois’s m...

The textbook contains a systematic presentation of the main provisions of the semiotics of culture - a discipline that had an exceptional influence on the de...

France is used to considering itself the intellectual center of the world, a place where universal values of reason are cultivated. Today this idea is experi...

Having started his career as a sociologist, Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929) is today one of the world's most famous thinkers exploring the phenomenon of the so-ca...

JEAN RAY (real name Raymond-Jean-Marie De Cremer; 1887–1964) was a Belgian novelist. He wrote under various pseudonyms, mainly adventure and detective novels...

The book contains materials from an international conference organized at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University in Dece...