National classics in global transit

In this review the author discusses the questions raised during the XXII Summer International School of Humanities (Moscow). The Summer School program was focused on the subject of national literary classics in global transit: leading world researchers and teachers attempted to problematize a given topic in various aspects, both academic and methodical. Lectures, workshops, roundtables, discussions allowed to discuss the problem of the formation and transformation of the national literary canon, and the reflection of the literary classics in popular culture, as well as its refraction in other, non-literary, media (theater, cinema), and, finally, features of understanding the literary classics in modern artistic practice (first of all, in the modern novel). The methodological part of the Summer School program was no less diverse: the problems of teaching foreign literature at school (related to the clear predominance of Russian literary works in the school course, often studied without following the relationship with Western European literature) and the problems of studying foreign literature at the university were offered for discussion. Particular attention was paid to the discussion of the course of world literature as a project.