Survival instructions from Vasily Shukshin The writer, actor and film director Vasily Shukshin (1929 - 1974) today would have turned 90 years old. On this occasion, “Gorky” gathered his most interesting, funny and ambiguous statements - about literature, life, death, love and other most important things. About work I, like a plowman, attach to my table, cigaret it, start working. This is wonderful. About art and literature The logic of art and the logic of life - oh, these are different things.

Excerpt from Erwin Goffman's book Total Institutions The publishing house “Elementary Forms” publishes Erwin Goffman’s book “Total Institutions. Essays on the social situation of mentally ill patients and other residents of closed institutions." We are publishing a fragment of it. On the concept of a total institution Every institution requires time and interest from its members and provides them with a special world, that is, every institution tends to be closed.

Ninety years since the birth of Vasily Shukshin On July 25, 1929, Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, a writer, director, screenwriter and actor, was born in the Altai village of Tostka. The publisher of Gorky Boris Kupriyanov discusses the mythologized image of Shukshin and what he really was. From the anniversary text to the nineteenth anniversary of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, you can expect populist pathos, but it is better to talk about how to read the anniversary today.