Professor of immortality. Sluchevsky Konstantin Konstantinovich

Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky (1837-1904) is more known to the modern reader as a poet and translator. And few people know that his prose occupies a considerable and important place in his work and in the history of literature. In this collection, in addition to the poetic cycles of the “Duma”, “Mephistopheles”, “Black -Earth strip”, “Murmansk echoes”, “Songs from the corner”, etc., the prosaic works “Professor of Immortality”, “My Uncle”, “Miliery Wind” are included "," City head "," coward ", etc., characterized by genre diversity, psychologism, a mixture of fiction and religious and philosophical reasoning, the style of very uneven and not all evaluated over the next eras. In Soviet times, the works of K. Sluchevsky were rarely reprinted, so some of his prose works are first published without yards. The collection also includes the poem “In the Snow” and the apocryphal tradition “Eloa”. The publication is preceded by an article by V. Bryusov “Poet of contradictions”.