The book contains articles, printed in 1960-90 years mainly in inaccessible scientific journals, domestic and foreign, as well as previously unpublished. The subjects of the book is broad and diverse: Russian poetry, especially Mandelstam (the author was at the forefront of the domestic mandelshtamovedeniya) and Boris Pasternak, and Russian and foreign prose of the twentieth century (in the center of Vladimir Nabokov, but also Andrei Platonov, H.L...