“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...

“...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, ...

“In intellectual circles, a traditional attitude towards philosophy has been established: the latter is looked upon ... as something that constitutes the are...

“On the book market at the moment, everything that delivers any kind of “sharp” pleasure and excitement, everything that artificially raises the vital activi...

“...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...

“...G. Nevedomsky develops a program of “free” art, which he contrasts not only with “ideological” art, which has become widespread since the “sixties,” but ...

“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...

“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...

“...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...

“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...

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