This book includes articles written and collected as part of the Shelf project. Created in 2017, the project aimed to identify the most important works of Russian literature. To do this, a large community of experts compiled a list of 108 works that left a mark on history, expanded the possibilities of literature, influenced the development of language, thought and society, said something new about the world and man and entered the Russian literary canon. These are novels, stories, short stories, plays, poems, literary memoirs - from The Tale of Igor's Campaign to Chapayev and Emptiness. The authors tried to write about each of these works clearly and accessibly, relying on extensive scientific and critical literature, place each in a large literary context and talk about other texts that influenced it and were influenced by it.
The third and fourth volumes of the publication include 48 articles on Russian literature from 1918 to the post-Soviet era.
The book is for the widest range of readers - for those who have turned to the classics for the first time, and for those who reread them again and again; for those who are required to know by the school or university curriculum, and for those who read Russian literature for themselves.
Author: Collective of authors
Year of issue: 2025
Publisher: Alpina non-fiction
Pages: 1184
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 170x220x90 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00139-822-6