Peredelkino station: on top of fences: Roman of private life: Alexander Nilin

Alexander Nilin is a prose writer and a memoirist, the author of books about the legends of big sport. “Peredelkino station: on top of fences” – unusual memories of the life of writers and poets diluted by personal fate and degree of fame, but united by the “unity of place and time” – a country village of writers, where the author lives since his birth. With the intonation of the simultaneously ironic and sympathetic, A. Nilin talks about his neighbors in the “writer town”, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Fadeev and Angelina Stepanova, Valentina Serova and Konstantin Simonov, Chukovsky, Kataeva, the author of the Brest Fortress, Sergey Smirnov, Yuri Olesha …
Relying on the exclusive of his own memory, in the “Roman of Private Life” the author combines the first impressions of the child with the observations and thoughts of subsequent years.

Author
Nilin Alexander Pavlovich
Publisher
AST, 2015
Series
Memoirs

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