Those who want to re-read The Odyssey before watching Christopher Nolan's film have an alternative to hexameter. In 2025, the Rhino publishing house published a new translation of Homer's Odyssey, made by Grigory Starikovsky. What does he add to the canonical translations of Zhukovsky and Veresaev and, in general, why translate Homer again? - says classical philologist, literary critic and author of the telegram channel “Fish Pilot” Galina Yuzefovich*.

To the 150th anniversary of the Somerset Moham The Russian -speaking reader knows the Somerset Maugham primarily as the author of the novel “Theater”, but in fact the creative heritage of the British writer is very extensive. Contemporaries hardly managed to appreciate Maugham during his lifetime - the more clearly the true scale of his literary talent becomes more clearly. Especially for “Gorky” about him and his prose, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells.

Heroes from different countries find themselves on the island of relative calm in the middle of Europe, experiencing a disaster Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about the first book from the Balkan Trilogy British writer Olivia Manning, the novel The Greatest Blessed, first published in 1960. He was translated into Russian only now. The heroes of the book find themselves in the Romanian Bucharest on the eve of the Second World War and observe how Europe is immersed in darkness.

There are no moralizing comparisons of the present with the past. But you can suddenly find hope for the best The publishing house of Alpina Pablisher published a book by journalist Alexander Baunov “The end of the regime: how three European dictatorships ended.” There is not a word about many readers of the history of the fall of Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy, and also - not a hint of a regime, the end of which millions of people await today.

Previously, this list was called "what could not be missed." This year you can miss anything. But here is what exactly deserves your attention Movie Sit on the wheel of my car Doraibu Mai Ka. Director - Ryusuke Hamaguti. Japan A three -hour Japanese arthaus film, shot, although according to the short story of Megapopular Haruki Murakami, is not the most obvious contender for the title of “favorite of the audience”.

This is another author from the generation of 30-year-old Russian writers, which is expressed louder and more confident Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about the debut novel of the Russian writer Mikhail Turbin “Above the legs from the ground”. The main character of the book is a doctor who has recently lost his wife and child.

The new laws on “foreign agents” and “gay propaganda” plunged the book market into a shock state. Galina Yuzefovich says what his players think Janos Kummer / Getty Images The recently adopted law prohibiting the “gay propaganda” completely changed the cultural life of Russia: films, TV shows and other works, at least somehow related to Quir Tematics, were banned.

Nevertheless, Galina Yuzefovich chose the 20 best new books, which should pay attention to From December 1 to 5, the Gostiny Dvor in Moscow will host the annual literary fair non/fiction . It will take place in the difficult conditions for the industry: because of the war, many foreign authors refused to be published in Russian; The law on the complete ban on gay propaganda also significantly narrowed the circle of literature presented on the market.

The rating of all 20 novels, compiled by Galina Yuzefovich. From the worst to the better On November 22, writer Viktor Pelevin turned 60 years old. At the request of Medusa, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich compiled his own rating of all his novels - from those that seem completely unsuccessful to the works that will forever remain in the history of Russian literature. 20.

His "Milia No. 5" is one of the main anti -war novels of the 20th century. Why is it so difficult to read today? Oliver Morris / Getty images Kurt Vonnegut in the mid-1980s Kurt Vonneguta - 100 years. The most important romance in the work of the American writer “Brotherhood No. 5, or the Crusade of Children” was released in 1969, almost a quarter of a century after the end of the Second World War, in which Vonneguten himself participated.

The writer's first attempt to talk about a living person - and about nothing else Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about the new novel of the Russian writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin “Chagin”. The main character of the book is a mnemonist, that is, a person with absolute memory. He comes from Irkutsk to Leningrad, where the KGB recruits him and introduces him into a circle of young people reading forbidden literature.

Bookmate leaders Alexei Dokuchaev and Andrei Baev released Quir-Bestseller “Summer in the Pioneer Tip”-and were declared “foreign agents”. We talked with them Alexey Dokuchaev and Andrey Baev. BookMate The Ministry of Justice of Russia on October 28 suddenly announced the Bookmate Book Service (registered in Ireland), as well as Andrei Baeva and Alexei Dokuchaev, by foreign agents.

Interview with Elena Malisova and Katerina Silvanova - Author's authors "Summer in the Pioneer Tip" about the relationship of the counselor and pioneer Elena Malisova and Katerina Silvanova “Summer in the pioneer tie” and “What Swallow is silent about” - two novels of Russian writers Katerina Silvanova and Elena Malisova, who became hits . Russian propagandists have repeatedly opposed the “summer”.

And also - about how important it is to deal with injustice in the darkest moments of history For the first time in Russian, the “promise” of the South African writer Damon Galgut, who received the Buker Prize in 2021, was released in Russian. In the novel, a disturbed oath launches a chain of tragic events for several generations of one family.

This decision looks serene (and strange) - as if it was not accepted at all in the apocalyptic 2022 Leonardo Cendamo / Getty images; ANGELA Weiss / AP / Scanpix / Leta The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French writer Annie Erno.