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 editors of the "Polka" project - Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are discussing . The project shelf is a shelf of the most important Russian books and in the studio of the shelf.
Shelf editors talk about books that can help you understand what is happening or endure despair . Poetry, prose, non-fiction: about all this - in the new episode of our podcast .
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 .
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 .
Yevgeny Dobrenko is a historian, professor at the University of Venice, author of a fundamental two-volume work on the culture and politics of the post-war USSR . Lev Oborin and Yuri Saprykin discuss with him why a superpower that has just won a war immediately starts fighting internal enemies .
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?
"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?