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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

Maria Nesterenko. How did women's writing begin in Russia?

Duration: 0:38:23

"Shelf" opens a new season of podcasts - and changes the rules a bit . Elizaveta Podkolzina and Lev Oborin are talking to philologist Maria Nesterenko, who has just published her book Roses Without Thorns . Who were the first Russian writers and poetesses, what did they write about and how did they find their way in literature?

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureWomenMaria Nesterenkothe 19th centuryRussian Sofa