The article researches the issue of the relevance of poetry in the USSR, using as an example the year 1926, when several literary periodicals simultaneously decided to investigate the attitude of their readers and of poets ...

The paper examines how Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden utilises the apparatus of symbolist ornamental prose, one of the characteristic features of Russian Modernism, while it applies postmodern devices to ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz and of selected aspects of its translation into Ukrainian, Russian and English. Due to the fact that each translation can be ...

Gennady Shpalikov’s poem “Ballada pro tikhoye otchayanie” (‘A Ballad About a Quiet Despair’), dedicated to film director Larisa Shepitko, is hereby published for the first time. The piece survived as part of Shpalikov’s ...

The paper discusses employing a highly intertextualized text in translator training. Using an example of a humorous story in Russian, the author describes the advantages of the classroom use of such a text. They encompass: ...

The article considers the artistic idea and devices of Alexander Pushkin’s epigram on Fyodor Tolstoy “the American”, entitled “David the Singer was short...” (1822). Some semantic nuances are explained and clarified.