The formation of Western literary criticism in the XIX - beginning of the XX century In the second lecture of the cycle dedicated to the history of literary criticism, which is read in the House of Peredelkino’s work as part of a joint project with Gorky, Natalya Pakhsaryan spoke about the transformations that have occurred with European criticism over the past two centuries, starting with Charles Saint-Böva and ending with Rolan Bart and Antoine Companion.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Sunday, March 31, 2024, a lecture “Russian literary criticism of the 18th - early 19th centuries” will be held at the Peredelkino House of Creativity. It will be read by Professor Dmitry Ivinsky, according to the project website. The lecture will be devoted to the emergence of literary criticism in Russia, which originated in the 18th century and already at the beginning of the 19th century came closer to pan-European approaches.

Konstantin Sonin - about the book of Nikita Petrov "Time of Andropov" In the minds of many Russians who found the late Soviet time, the figure of Yuri Andropov is surrounded by an ominous aura: the powerful chairman of the KGB, transferred to the chair of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU, began to restore order with an iron hand. It still seems to many that only his imminent death saved the late USSR from turning into second North Korea.

From the book of Robert Pierce "Reading as a philosophical practice" The way we read and what we read is not entertainment, but a full -fledged philosophical activity. This, at least, is convinced by the Canadian philosopher Robert Pierce. We offer to read an excerpt from his book on this issue. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.