Abstract. November 13, 2013 at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a round-table discussion “The Fragment and the Cycle: from classical to modern times” took place. The principal of the round-table is Natalya Vishnevskaya, a specialist in literature and culture of both European Romanticism and India, comparativist.
Key words: literary genre, fragment, cycle, intermediality.