That I read Paul sweat Verlaine field fan and a permanent customer of bukinists from the Seine embankment; The man who appreciated Rousseau and tried to put his ideas into life - “Gorky” continues to explore the libraries of famous historical personalities. Today, Yegor Sennikov talks about the books that Paul Pot read. The twentieth century was rich in a wide variety of dictators - cruel and good -natured, hedonists and ascetics, gloomy and cheerful, intellectuals and fools.

Manifesto of hatred of a traditional novel and his followers To create artistic fiction is how to go behind the wheel in a clown suit: eight years ago, American David Shields published a manifesto of the thirst for reality, in which he declared artistic prose finally outdated. She should be replaced by the full, real, unprocessed reality of the book. Especially for Gorky, Maria Tsiruleva talks about the manifesto and his most famous followers.