Confession of the pagan. Blok A.A.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921), of course, is primarily known as a poet, one of the most striking representatives of Russian symbolism. Nevertheless, the important part of his work is prosaic works: fairy tales, journalistic and critical articles, essays, reports, letters and autobiographical works, in which the poet’s worldview, his political views and literary preferences are most fully revealed. The book includes selected poems from the cycles “Ante Lucem”, “Poems about the beautiful lady”, “Rastens”, “Bubbles of the Earth”, “Different poems”, “City”, “Snow mask”, “Faina”, “The terrible world” , “Retribution”, “Yamba”, “Harp and violin”, “Carmen”, “Homeland”; The poems “Nightingale Garden”, “Retribution”, “Twelve”, “Scythians” and prose works: “Confession of the Gentile”, “Girl of the Pink Ticket and the Ant Tsar”, “The Tale of the one that will not understand it”, “Not Dreams,“ Not Dreams, No reality ”, as well as selected critical and journalistic articles.

precedes the collection Essay on Maxim Gorky about Alexander Blok.