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The emotional mood of Mandelstam's lyrics is full of what critics called 'mental discomfort'. And the accentuated simplicity of everyday trifles, from which he built his poetic reality, only emphasizes the longing and anxiety of an outstanding person who

Osip Mandelstam - one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, essayist, translator, literary critic. His tragic fate was a reflection of the catastrophic events in the history of Russia. From student studies and the first publications of t

Alexey Polyarinov's novel resembles a complex system of lakes. It has cyberpunk, David Mitchell's majestic designs, Borges, and David Foster Wallace... But its heroes - a young journalist, hacker and artist - live in Moscow and resist the onset of a brave

The first volume of the most famous French novel of the 20th century was published over a hundred years ago, in November 1913. The novel was called 'Towards Swann', and its author Marcel Proust did not yet suspect that his offspring would grow into a cycle 'In Search of Lost Time', on which the writer would work until the last hours of his life. The reader will have to evaluate the second novel...

In popular psychology, there is an opinion that, faced with a choice of two evils, a person always decides to take the path that requires the least effort. Is it so? What drives a person who chooses to become a traitor? How to live with the wrong choice?

So here is the story of when Findus was little and disappeared. Findus and Pettson live in a red farmhouse, with a henhouse, workshop, and toolshed set among the forests, fields, and meadows of rural Sweden. Every picture tells a story, with a fascinating

The cultural dialogue between Russia and America has been going on for centuries, despite all the historical obstacles. Writers and philosophers from both countries closely followed each other's political, social, and artistic experiments.

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal...