Correspondence from two perspectives

Brief correspondence Vyach. Ivanova and M. Gershenzon, which happened in the summer of 1920, when both friends lived together in the same room, in the health resort "for workers of science and literature" in Moscow ", became one of the deepest disputes of the 20th century about the ways and fate of world culture, an example of intellectual polemic and heiress of classical cultural debate of past centuries.
When preparing the publication by American philologist Robert Berd, a number of important textological clarifications were made and the historical and biographical background of the "correspondence", which sheds light on some of its plot and intonation turns, was recreated. R. Berd considers "correspondence" as a classic text in the history of European thought and traces the late analogies of a number of its provisions in the works of G.G. Gadamer, P. Riker, K. Berke