 In this works literary genres and the laws of development of separate national literatures of Europe were considered in their original versions historical development.Already published the first volume (1962) and second (1964) and was being prepared for publication the third volume (1965; The Style, composition, literary development).The authors of the new "Theory of literature" - young and enthusiastic scientists S. Bocharov (С. Г. Бочаров), V. Kozhinov (В. В. Кожинов), P. Palievsky (П. В. Палиевский), G. Gachev (Г. Д. Гачев) - at the time yet had no global fame, but the weekly discussions of new texts in the Department of theory with the participation of two or three graduate students became truly Socratic feasts of intellectual thought.