Excerpt from the essays of Sergei Gandlevsky about Russian literature The book “An invisible swarm” is the most complete collection of texts about Russian literature, written by poet Sergei Gandlevsky over the past thirty years. We publish a note about the poet Alexander Mezhirov, which can also be read as an essay that even an unfinished success in a totalitarian society gives rise to a special feeling of guilt in honest people.

About the book “Ecological Poetics of Andrei Platonov. Stories of the end of the 1930-1940s " The forerunner of post -humanism and the writer, who thinks environmentally friendly, - this is how Andrei Platonov, the British researcher Alex Thomas sees. There is a big stretch in this version, and it is not connected with the fact that Platonov’s ideas fit poorly into the modern ecological agenda, but with the fact that the Soviet modernist is much further, Ivan Napapenko is sure.