Literary criticism

Among the poets and writers of the Silver Age the article singles out Yu.Aikhenvald and I.Annensky, drawing attention to their articles on A.F.Pisemsky, one of the most controversial authors of the midXIX-the century. Both critics concentrated on the characters’ speech in Pisemsky’s works finding it his most specific trait as an author, and both offered deep insights in Pisemsky’s world and further vistas for its analysis. Following into their steps, the article contains some new observations on Pisemsky’s style.

The article deals with semantics and inner typology of NabokovSirin’s titles, treated as ‘opening words’ of respective poetic and prosaic texts, in order to penetrate the writer’s way of thinking and describe his specific language culture. 

The article analyzes the category of space in Andrey Platonov’s world as multilevel phenomenon. It describes philosophical characteristics of every space level, reveals the significant connections with the category of time, and offers the interpretation of the existential meaning of these categories. 

The contemporary Russian literature is a complex mixture of separate sub-literatures, each having its own authors and its own devoted readers. We witness ubiquitous presence of readers’ ‘deceived expectations’ device, as regards traditional ideas of genres and forms. The marginal genres often appear on the borderline between literature and journalism. Among the productive models are TVconfession; print media genre of women review; specific combinations of these two.