Essays on Russian literary and musical culture

This book includes articles and reviews written for thirty years (1988–2019) and closely related to each other by three through topics. The first topic is the wide perception of the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin in the field of ethics, the theory of dialogue, history and theory of culture, the second is the application of the Bakhtinsky principles of “rearrangement” in the subsequent musicalization of Russian classical literature, and the third is the creative (or free) reading of the works of one master of literature to others, Much later in time: Tolstoy reads Shakespeare, Nabokov - Pushkin, Krzhizhanovsky - Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. Great writers, like great composers, absorb and transform the greatness of the past into something new. It is this type of activity that the real book is dedicated