To the 120th anniversary of Andrei Platonov, Polk editors Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are discussing . Why do his books look more modern today than ever? Is he a Soviet writer? And what is the Soviet project for him? What is the peculiarity and strangeness of his language?
Great Russian literature is not only big names and textbooks, an important part of it stands in the back rows . The editors of "Shelf" decided to tell about their favorite writers of the second row - maybe you will love them too . Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are the editors of the shelf .
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 .
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 .