The great singer has a special attitude to the literary text, to literature. It was a great pleasure for her to read Kafka in German. She always has books by Hrant Matevosyan on her table. She also likes modern Armenian writers such as Alis Hovhannisyan, Hovhannes Yeranyan...

The novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer, screenwriter and film director, ideologist of the New Novel concept, member of the French Academy, surprised many readers, but many also did not accept him. That's why there were always heated debates over his works...

The collection of prose writer and publicist Ashot Hovsepyan "Searching for the Last Year's Snow" fully reflects the 1990s, a hard period for Armenia that left a deep trace in the life of the country. The writer also predicted the vices of today's Armenian reality and brought a whole gallery of interesting characters to literature...

The literature created in the 1920s-30s laid the groundwork for the rise of the modern Brazilian novel writing thanks to Lins do Rego, Queiroz, Ramos, Amado, and others. They realistically depicted the lives of laborers, their material and physical bereavements, the atmosphere in the plantations, and the riots of the exploited people...

This episode is dedicated to the German writer and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, whose novels enriched the German-language literature with new characters and ideas. His most famous novel, "Group Portrait with Lady," brought great fame to the writer thanks to its extraordinariness...

This episode is dedicated to the poet and writer Charles Aznavour, whose book "Aznavour by Aznavour" is still read with great interest.

What is the secret of a writer whose works have many readers? Both adults and children read her collections with love. But how are the sentences born, which after being written do not belong, in some sense, to the author anymore?…

The famous poet Silva Kaputikyan's centenary is coming soon. Armenuhi Demirchyan, Candidate of Philology, literary critic, Director of the Silva Kaputikyan House-Museum, explains a number of issues related to the anniversary events, to certain episodes of Kaputikyan's life, to the interest in her literary heritage...

The famous American writer Ray Bradbury wrote his novel “Dandelion Wine” in 1957, remembering his childhood. He turned the summer of 1928 into an interesting canvas of time and space, portraying his childhood home, family, and nature through the image of dandelions and vivifying wine made with them...

The novel “1984” by English writer George Orwell is one of the most popular novels in the world nowadays also. Through this novel, the writer proves what consequences the loss of personality may have for the human being...

It is known that we are losing the tradition of buying books. What is our reader today, and what processes will help have more readers?...

Literature and theater — with an inseparable connection, they give birth to drama. However, it turns out plays are written seldom today...

The novel “Animal Farm” by the English writer and publicist George Orwell is a type of allegorical prose that creates an interesting image of society and of the state through abundant multivoiced characters. It is today one of the most interesting and popular works in the world...

In 1983, the famous English writer William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize. He gained literary fame thanks to his novel "Lord of the Flies," which warned of the dangers of fascism. Allegories here give a general idea of the world and of time, and are philosophical in nature.

The young poet talks about writing, education, literature textbooks, and many other things...

A convergence of art and reality is remarkable in the Swedish literature of the 1920s. The influence of Henri Barbusse's literary magazine "Clarté" was of great importance, and modernist moods appeared in literature...

Cinematography and literature – they are as close to each other, as it are far apart. They tell about space and time, light and color in all details, but also often change their languages, creating a mysterious and new world...

Among the Cuban prose writers of the first half of the 20th century were Carlos Loveira, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, and Alejo Carpentier. Poetry collections and series were characterized by the desire of freedom and by the influence of folk art. At the end of the 20s, Nicolás Guillén was famous. His poetry volume "Motives de son" is full of rhythms of folk songs and dances.

French writer, journalist and revolutionary Henri Barbusse received literary fame thanks to his novel "Fire," which is dedicated to the revolutionization of mass consciousness...
 

Antonio Machado is a representative of the Generation of '98. The birth of his first collection of poems, "Loneliness," coincided with the publication of the collection “Sad Melodies” by outstanding Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. The poetic world of Machado is quite peculiar. Along with deep personal experiences and doubts, he presents numerous questions that reflect his fears about the present and the future. Also, the nature of his homeland and melodic forms of expression are found in his poetry.