Contemporaries. Portraits and sketches: Korney Chukovsky

In the book of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969) “Contemporaries”, which has long been included in the golden fund of memoirs and most fully represented in this edition, the impressive portraits of Chekhov and Kuprin, Gorky and Korolenko, Leonid Andreev and Alexei Tolstoy, Blok and Mayakovsky, Fedor Sologub, Sasha Chernoye, Gumilyov, Gomilyov, are given. Akhmatova, Pasternaka, Zoshchenko, Tynyanov, Koni, Lunacharsky, Repin, Sobinov … Written on the basis of diaries, letters and personal impressions, essays lively, with many bright details not only show the literary and near -literary life of a long -gone era, but also deeply penetrate the creative laboratory of a number of writers.

Author
Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich
Publisher
Prose writer, 2014