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 .
A year passes, and, according to the impatient world, a decade passes . What trends appeared in the literature, what did it manage to explain to us about the world and about itself? The editors of Shelf, helping themselves with strong drinks (New Year!), remember the most important thing - in prose, poetry, theater, non-fiction .
Gogol propagandizes al dente pasta and makes Sobakevich eat a side of lamb . Tolstoy sorts things out with the world with the help of vegetarianism . Sorokin serves a salad from women's gloves to the table .
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 .
Gathered on a winter evening in the hospitable library of Nekrasov, the editors of the "Polka" discussed the role of snow and cold in literature . From Russian fairy tales and Christmas stories to four Snowstorms (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Pasternak and Sorokin), from the poems of Blok and Brodsky to conspiracy investigations about the Dyatlov Pass.