S. Ševyriovo straipsnis raštija ir prekyba (1835 m.): Žurnalo biblioteka dlia čtenija kritika
S. Shevyrov’s Article Literature And Commerce (1835): Criticism Of The Magazine Library For Reading

Summary/Abstract: In the following article, the opinion of the Russian literary critic Stepan Shevyrov on the matter of the popular journal Library for Reading, explicated in his article Literature and Commerce, is analysed. In the aforementioned article, the critic reproaches the journal for turning literature into a trading market, which causes, in the author’s opinion, the debasement of published literary works. Criticism of Shevyrov, which targets the aspects of publishing by the journal Library for Reading, considers not only the problem of writers’ honorariums payed for their literary works, but also the problem of genres. Shevyrov is convinced that high honorariums paid to authors reduce the artistic value of their literary works. This article seeks to determine the truthfulness of Shevyrov’s criticism, which is based on the view that high honorariums cause authors to write large, yet low-quality novels and stories.

• Details
• Contents