Fragment from Dmitry Tsyganov’s book “Jean-Paul Sartre and the USSR” Sartre's works in the post-war USSR were not known to the general public, but Soviet propaganda closely followed the creative and intellectual career of the French philosopher and writer in order, on the one hand, to subvert his “idealistic and reactionary” existentialism, and on the other, to extol his harsh anti-American statements and favorably note his rapprochement with communist-oriented circles of leftist thinkers in the

What to ask at bookstores A biography of Giotto, a novel about the King of Bohemia, articles and conversations by the architect Ass, a central work on liberation theology, as well as a story about how the inhabitants of the New and Old Worlds treated animals differently. Friday has come, which means that the editors of Gorky are talking about what we think are the most interesting new products.

About the novel by Matei Caragiale “The Helipads of the Old Court” Mateiu Caragiale's (1885–1936) novel “The Helipads of the Old Court” is considered one of the main works of Romanian literature, which was illegally read by post-war intellectuals and around which a whole cult developed. Now this sophisticated masterpiece of Eastern European modernism has been released in Russian, as reported by Eduard Lukoyanov.