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 figure of a mother and issues connected with motherhood are themes seldom encountered in Bulgakov’s works. It may be assumed that this is due to the fact that the writer himself did not have children, even though he ...

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 ...

In the following article the author’s aim is to analyze how originals and translations influence the reader’s imagination. In fact, an average reader’s imaginative potential cannot be verified by any means available to a ...

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 presents an outline of the history of Russian and French cultural alliance, beginning with episodic contacts in the 16th and 17th centuries until the 18th c., which commences a dialogue with France that would ...

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 reviews the role of obscene vocabulary in Sergei Yesenin’s cycle Moscow Taverns, as well as the problems connected with rendering them into Polish. The material ofthe analysis, Yeseninʼs poetry, is famous for ...