Ingmar Bergman compares Tarkovsky's films to a room to which the Swedish director did not have a key, but which he passionately wanted to get into. And Tarkovsky moved in this room with complete ease. This spatial example of Bergman can be extrapolated to the work of many directors, if not, in general, along the lines of cinema. Yes, and not only for him. Marx found the entrance to the room where Hegel and all previous German classical philosophy had stopped.

The weekly chapter of Vaetse tells us about love at first sight, and at first glance, it resembles the classic romantic plots of countless novels and films, but this is only at first glance. "And Jacob kissed Rachel and raised his voice and wept" It turns out that he cried not from happiness, but from the fact that he saw in a prophetic vision that he would not be buried with her. This is somewhere completely wrong... And from my poverty.

From November 29 to December 3, the 19th International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/fiction will be held at the Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val. The publishing house "Seance" will also present its books there. One of their latest novelties is Waiters of August , a collection of essays and stories by Russian art critic Arkady Ippolitov (“Only Venice,” “Especially Lombardy”), whose first book was published ten years ago, also in Séance.

Danny Boyle's Trance is a classic example of cinema about trauma and our secret fantasies. In addition, it is post-noir, filled with flashbacks, puzzles, visual cues and wanderings in the dark of the mind. Filmed in 2013, it continues to amaze even compared to other films in this genre. Perhaps because it appeals to the logic of tragedy.

On Stefan Zweig's birthday, libra publishes the writer's correspondence with Sofia Yesenina Tolstaya. The materials were provided by the Manuscript Department of the State Tolstoy Museum and the Fredonia University Library, New York, USA and were included in a book published jointly with the Zweig Institute in Salzburg - Stefan Zweig. Escape to Tolstoy. M.: libra, 2016. (Archiv SZ) . Translation from English by A. Filippov-Chekhov. Stefan Zweig. Escape to Tolstoy. M.: libra, 2016. (Archiv SZ).