Poe, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky: brilliance and poverty of national genius

The collective monograph presents the works of the participants of the I International Conference on Comparative Research of National Cultures, Edgar Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Fedor Dostoevsky and the problem of national genius: analogies, genealogies, branches of ideas" (May 2013, Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University) In the works of literary critics from the UK, Russia, the USA and France, various topics and motives are considered, uniting three great writers of different peoples: the genius of Christianity and demons of nationalism, a huge city and miserable corners, a flaer-lamer and underground spite, prophetic birds and poor people, psychopathy and sociopathy, etc