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Dust in your eyes

Duration: 0:26:08

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?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian LiteratureBooksDostoevskyLev Tolstoy

Russia is the birthplace of Godzilla

Duration: 0:38:06

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?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian LiteratureLev Tolstoy