The Possessed is a novel that some understand as a political pamphlet, others as a terrible and come true prophecy about the Russian revolution . Some understand it as a space where the writer’s favorite metaphysical ideas collide. The editors of Polk decided to discuss Dostoevsky's novel on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth .
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 .
In this issue, the editors of "Shelf" answer questions from listeners . How to understand if you have a bad text or a good one? Why is the novel better than the series? When did literary awards appear in Russia? Does the author have the right to squeeze a tear out of the reader?
The editors of "Shelf" talk about the books that are most remembered last year: "The End of the World, My Love" by Alla Gorbunova and "The Seventh Alkaline" by Polina Barskova . They also talk about "Departure into the Forest" by Ernst Junger and Leonid Yuzefovich's novel "Ph
Yuri Saprykin and the editors of the Polka project are discussing one of the main Russian books . "A Hero of Our Time" as a colonial novel, can Pechorin be called a perverse narcissist, toxic relationships in the time of Lermontov .