About the book: 2001 / Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinsky (1918–2005) - the largest Russian folklorist and literary critic. His works examine a wide range of comparative and structural-typological problems in the study of world literature. The articles in the collection “From Myth to Literature” are grouped around three thematic blocks: mythology, folklore, archaic fine arts; literature of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; theory and practice of the avant-garde.