Russian Literature for Everyone. From Blok to Brodsky. Great Reading!

Igor Nikolayevich Sukikh — literary scholar, Doctor of Philology, professor at St. Petersburg University, writer, critic. Author of numerous studies on the history of Russian literature of the 19th–20th centuries, including the books «Problems of Chekhov's Poetics», «Chekhov in Life: Stories for a Short Novel», «From... to... Essays on Russian Literature», «Sergei Dovlatov: Time, Place, Fate», «Structure and Meaning: Theory of Literature for Everyone», «Books of the 20th Century. The Russian Canon» and others, as well as popular literature textbooks for schoolchildren and teachers.

The three-volume work «Russian Literature for Everyone» (first edition — 2013) is a guide to domestic classics, addressed to the widest reading audience. It provides an overview of the national literary canon — from «The Tale of Igor's Campaign» to authors of the late 20th century. The current, already fourth, edition has been supplemented with new chapters — «Folklore: From Epic to Vaudeville», «Tales of the Time of Troubles: Happiness and Misfortune», «A. D. Kantemir», «A. N. Radishchev», «N. S. Leskov», expanded chapters on Saltykov-Shchedrin and Gorky, and includes a large section «The Language of Russian Writers».

«Russian Literature for Everyone» is one of those rare books that do not become outdated over time. It once again proves that philology is not a dreary science, and a serious conversation about literature can be not only informative but also captivating.