Does literature help develop empathy? Are we always ready to let the author bring us to tears? Are there win-win topics that are guaranteed to evoke pity in the reader? Grushnitsky and Pippi Longstocking, clerk Korotkov from "The Diaboliad" and Jude from "Little Life"
Elizaveta Podkolzina and Yuri Saprykin talk with the poet and writer Oksana Vasyakina about her second novel, The Steppe . The book is dedicated to her trucker father, stigmatized illnesses, and the virus of masculinity that has infected society .
The editors of the Polka project discuss one of the main ethical conflicts in Russian literature (and life in general) How writers of the 19th century learned to recognize the feelings of a woman and figured out which is stronger - duty or love, attraction or morality.
This year we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky . We talk about this in the new episode of the Polk podcast . The Polk podcast is hosted by Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin .
The editors of "Shelf" decided to discuss how Russian literature speaks of love, and use the ancient classification for this: storge, eros, philia, agape . In this issue we are talking about storga, family love: why do many childhood memories leave a bright impression, despite the difficult details .
The connection of Russian rock with the traditions of Russian poetry has always been obvious . Rock musicians referred to the classics - and themselves created texts that were proverbial . Modern poets admit that they were deeply influenced by Grebenshchikov, Bashlachev and Letov .
Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin talk about Russian classical literature . They say Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are boring, boring, it's a "dusty yesterday"; it's not for us and not about today? Is it possible to make interesting old books that are boring?
The editors of "Shelf" Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin discuss what Russian literary megalomania is . How are texts of large volume and ambitions of a planetary scale connected? How did literature, trying to explain the world, come to the need to change it?
The history of world literature could be richer if it were not for the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the eruption of Vesuvius, tsarist censorship, Gogol's insanity, and searches by the NKVD . In this issue, the editors of Shelf discuss literature lost forever and miraculously returned .
The editors of "Shelf" discuss their personal stories and rationalization proposals . Is it possible to read The Wizard of Oz and Hesse at the same time? Should books that are too old be removed from children? How to shovel the school curriculum in literature and add "Harry Potter" there?