Excerpt from the book "Pastish" Culture researcher Richard Dyer in detail analyzes that there are pastes and what effects can be achieved with its help. We publish an excerpt from the chapter, where a particular case of Pastech is considered - a work inside the work. Richard Dyer. PASTISH. M.: Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2021. Translation from English by I. Kushnareva.

About the book of Katerzhin Tuchkova "Witch from Zhitkova" Modern Czech literature lives in the fact that he intensively recalls the past of his people. The bestseller of the Katerzhina Tuchkova “Witch from Zhitkova” also addresses this trend, in which the novel about residents of one village turns into an almost scientific historical essay about several eras. About why this book has become one of the main sensations in Czech literature in recent years, read in the material of Anna Agapova.

On the eve of one of the Victory Day anniversaries, festive posters with the slogan “I remember. I'm proud." There was a period at the end - not a question mark or even an ellipsis. The poster seemed to motivate citizens to treat history quite simply: in fact, remember and be proud. In this context there is no room for questions, criticism or doubts. This approach to the history of World War II is not unique to Russia: it is normal for Eastern Europe as a whole.

Roman Senchin - about the life and books of Sergey Golitsyn Sergei Golitsyn, the son of the prince and grandson of the Moscow governor, from his youth dreamed of becoming a writer and even entered the highest literary courses, but after the October Revolution he was forced to work at the construction sites of socialism. Nevertheless, he did not leave his dreams and eventually began to publish books, mainly for children and adolescents. As often happens, they were quite interesting for adults.