The idea of ​​"arithmetic" or "experimental" murder was very popular in the mid-19th century. Both Max Stirner and Thomas de Quincey were fond of this - Raskolnikov’s fictional article literally continues the very real fashion for such reasoning. Pushkin’s famous “we all look at Napoleons” led to the fact that almost all literary murders of the 19th century were committed by busts of Napoleon. Well, or with axes, if we were talking about poor people.

Fragment of the early diaries of Rainer Maria Rilke Gorky publishes a fragment of the diaries of Rainer Maria Rilke, who are published by Libra. In 1900, the poet visited the colony of artists of Vorps Vede in northern Germany and described in detail his impressions in the diaries. The artists of Vorps Vede (Heinrich Fogelier, Fritz Mackensen, Hans Am Ende, Fritz Overbeck) broke with the academies and went out into nature: so German visual and applied art turned to the Modern and Art Nouveau.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Swedish Academy may postpone the Nobel Prize in Literature until 2019 - and award two awards at once, “one for this year and one for next.” As TASS writes with reference to Swedish Radio, such a decision could be made due to a scandal in the institution.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The online literary-critical magazine “Reading” has launched a fundraising campaign on Planet for new projects. “The magazine exists without funding,” says the project description . – All the great work that our small team does – authors, editors, proofreaders, designers and programmers – we do out of love for literature.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The presentation of the book “Invitation to the Real: Cultural Studies” will take place on the evening of April 27. “Alexander Chernoglazov is a translator from English, German and French, to whom we owe the Russian translation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminars. In his book, Chernoglazov shows how the method of the largest French psychoanalyst works in the field of understanding art,” says the announcement of the event.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, and teacher Ibrahim Nasrallah won the International Prize for Arabic Literature. His victory was brought to him by the dystopia “The Second Dog War,” The Guardian reports .