Russkaia literatura: strast' i vlast' [Russian Literature: Passion and Power.]

‘Russian Literature: Passion and Power’ is the first book of lectures by Dmitry Bykov. Archpriest Avvakum, Lomonosov, Krylov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Nekrasov, Turgenev, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky...’Russian literature is radical literature, literature of great passions, great events. The most furious archaists, supporters of the past, turn out to be the most furious innovators ‘, passionate revolutionaries. After all, who among the Russian writers was almost shot? Dostoevsky, who later came to absolute archaism. And yet he fought with the authorities. Because power is always a conservative. Power is always a demand for obedience’ (Dmitry Bykov).