Sokolanskij, Mark2013-07-082013-07-082012Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, Nr 37 (2012), pp. 319-326978-83-232-2519-50081-6884http://hdl.handle.net/10593/6602The article focuses on the genre of Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s book The Modern Idyll. Special attention is paid to the traditions of a cervantesian type of novel in the book, the ironic code in the title and narration, real objects of bitter political satire, a great number of literary quotations, reminiscences and so on. On the whole the novel may be qualified as a novel-pamphlet.otherArtykuł