1. Subject. Like last year, the series of articles by Elchin "Why do we take responsibility for the genre? A few words around our criticism and literary process" ("525th newspaper" and "Literary newspaper", 2, 8, March 16, 2019) and the book of the same name (Baku, "Education", 2019). Mainly because both the articles and the publication in book format are critical facts of 2019, and they are also the only critique of contemporary literature, criticism and the literary process as a whole, targeting, objectifying, trying to cover, talking about, thinking about.