Boris Pasternak debuted at the onset of the 20th century, when Russian art witnessed radical transformations consisting in a departure from tradition and a quest for new content and forms of artistic expression. His ...

The article is devoted to Vyacheslav Pyetsukh’s reception of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s satire “The History of a Town”. In “The History of the Town of Glupov in New and Modern Times” and “The Town of Glupov in the Last ...

Contemporary Russian drama enters into a dialogue with literary tradition and in particular with the dramatic one. The works of the classics of modernism, including Anton Chekhov, very often become actualized in recent ...

The article deals with various types of dialogue of cultures in the songs by Veronika Dolina. The genre of “author song” (Russian and Soviet singer-songwriters’ works) is analysed as a special kind of dialogue with ...

The article is devoted to the correlation of epic and lyrical features in the plays by Vadim Levanov, one of the most interesting authors of the newest Russian dramaturgy. Special attention is given to the plays united ...

The article surveys the concepts of ‘freedom’ (“svoboda”) in contemporary Russian poetry and points out that there is no single understanding of it but a whole complex of approaches. While the concept of “svoboda” seems ...

The present study examines in what ways three 20th-century works, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s short story “The Flood”, Viktor Yerofeyev’s novel “Russian Beauty” and Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novel “Sonechka”, are connected to Fyodor ...

In the first part of the article the author presents phenomena characteristic of current Russian social fiction, focusing on genres such as alternative history, futuro-historical fiction and alternative futurology. In ...

The article is devoted to the problem of authorial intention in contemporary Russian drama. Firstly, major theoretical approaches to the ‘problem of the author’ in drama are identified. It is then demonstrated how cultural ...

The article presents an attempt to describe the oeuvre of the Russian and French playwright and theatre theoretician Mikhail Volokhov in the context of his relation to the Russian theatre of the absurd of the 1920s as ...