Crazy art. Fear, scandal, madness

The book is devoted to being in the culture of three main psycho -emotional states - fear, scandal and madness. Leading experts from Russia, France, America and Israel invite readers to see the hidden meanings underlying well -known works: “auditor”, “crime and punishment”, “idiot”, “uncle Vanya”, “small demon”, “Lolita” and many others. The figures of Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Nabokov appear before the reader in the New World. Fear is a strong impetus in the development of a person’s personality. But it can cause its radical change, destruction, and sometimes death. Literary scandals reveal new details of writer's biographies and cultural life of the era, which finds the embodiment in the work of writers and artists. And perhaps the most intriguing part of the book, introducing literary madness into the world, talks about a letter as pathology. About epigones and imitators, about mentally unhealthy heroes of books, delirium and hallucinations, which, however, perform important artistic tasks in the works.