20 quotes on how not to live a social life
On March 13, 1964, the court of the Dzerzhinsky district of Leningrad found the 23-year-old poet Joseph Brodsky guilty of...
On March 13, 1964, the court of the Dzerzhinsky district of Leningrad found the 23-year-old poet Joseph Brodsky guilty of...
March 7 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Japanese writer Kobo Abe, the author of philosophical novels,...
60 years ago, on November 22, 1963, the English writer Aldous Huxley died. Five years before his death, the author...
65 years ago, in the fall of 1958, Truman Capote's story “Breakfast at Tiffany's” was published. The story of a...
65 years ago, on October 23, 1958, the Nobel Committee announced the award of the Literature Prize to Boris Pasternak...
On September 11, 1903, Theodor Adorno was born - a German philosopher, a consistent critic of the cultural industry, who...
Ivan Turgenev died on September 3, 1883 in France. He lived most of his life in Europe, but he wrote...
55 years ago, on August 25, 1968, four days after the Soviet Union sent troops to Prague, eight people -...
Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928 - the author of cult films, who explored the territory on the...
July 14, 1918 was born Ingmar Bergman - one of the greatest directors of world cinema and one of its...
In July 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle's story "A Scandal in Bohemia" was published in The Strand Magazine - formally the...
On June 16, 1960, "Psycho" was released - one of the most famous films of Alfred Hitchcock, from which it...
June 14 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Lavrov, a historian, philosopher and revolutionary, one of the...
55 years ago, in June 1968, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's manuscript of The Gulag Archipelago, a chronicle of Soviet repression from 1918...
March 20, 1828 Henrik Ibsen was born - a Norwegian writer, the creator of the European "new drama", which sought...