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The walls help

Duration: 0:31:42

A house in Russian literature is not just a dwelling: it is a place where you feel good, where you want to return, but most often this place turns out to be an unattainable dream . What kind of house did Russian writers — and the heroes of their books — dream about? In what did they see the ideal of home comfort - and which houses seemed unbearable to them?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian LiteratureOblomovRussian writers

Lawless Heart

Duration: 0:50:19

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 .

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian studiesRussian Literature

Word to the heroes

Duration: 0:54:57

"Polka" decided to discuss Russian literary heroes "in the second sense" Are there exemplary knights or leaders in Russian classics, can such figures be complex? How does literature, when it comes to the hero, relate to mythology and folklore? How to read texts in which the author himself claims such a role?

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian LiteratureBattle of OksimironJoseph CampbellBuddha

Anatomy of Love: Attachment

Duration: 0:41:14

The editors of "Shelf" decided to discuss how Russian literature speaks of love, and use the ancient classification for this: storge, eros, philia, agape . In this issue we are talking about storga, family love: why do many childhood memories leave a bright impression, despite the difficult details .

Language: Russian
Topics: Russian LiteratureLoveGreeks

Our Nobel

Duration: 0:55:45

This year, archives related to the Nobel Prize of Alexander Solzhenitsyn were opened . According to the charter of the prize, detailed information about each of its awards has not been available for 50 years . In the near future, the "Shelf" is expected to feature material on the history of the Nobel 1970 .

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureAlexander SolzhenitsynNobel Prizethe Nobel Prizes in Literature

Most Reading Rock

Duration: 0:49:13

The connection of Russian rock with the traditions of Russian poetry has always been obvious . Rock musicians referred to the classics - and themselves created texts that were proverbial . Modern poets admit that they were deeply influenced by Grebenshchikov, Bashlachev and Letov .

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteraturePoetryJohn LennonLiverpoolStalinMusic

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

Gogol and emptiness

Duration: 0:28:52

The editors of Polkka are sorting it out 210 years since the birth of the great author . Gogol's works have been perceived over the past 150 years in completely different ways.

Language: Russian
Topics: Soviet eraGogolRussian LiteratureLenin

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

Children's reading of a healthy person

Duration: 0:41:17

The editors of "Shelf" discuss their personal stories and rationalization proposals . Is it possible to read The Wizard of Oz and Hesse at the same time? Should books that are too old be removed from children? How to shovel the school curriculum in literature and add "Harry Potter" there?

Language: Russian
Topics: EducationLiteratureRussian Life
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