摘要：An interview with O. A. Kling is presented, revealing the significance of Yu. M. Lotman’s works for literary criticism of the XX–XXI centuries. Oleg Alekseevich Kling is a Russian literary critic, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, winner of the magazine award “Questions of Literature”. The areas of scientific interests are Russian literature, the history of Russian literary studies, symbolism and post-symbolism, the Silver Age. He is the author of many works in these fields, including books: “Alexander Blok: The Structure of the Novel in Verse”, “Russian Poetry: The poem ‘Twelve’” (2004), “The Poetic World of Marina Tsvetaeva” (2004), “The Influence of Symbolism on Post-Symbolist Poetry in Russia of the 1910s: Problems of Poetics” (2010), “‘The Platinum Age’ in Russian Literature” (2017), editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia “Russian Literary Critics of the twentieth Century: BioBibliographic Dictionary. Vol. I: A–L” (2017).
