Maxim Gorky wrote: “To tell the truth is the most difficult of all arts.” It is the truth that encourages us that he is frantically, almost excitedly, to be proud of the glory of their distant ancestors and admire the former grandeur of the country, then bashfully turn a blind eye to the ugly aspects of our reality, secretly quietly suffering from obvious flaws of their own nature.
Along with the deep and balanced assessments of the classics of Russian literature, such as P. Ya. Chaadaev and F. M. Dostoevsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky and V.V. Rozanov, the book is permeated with the brilliant wit of masters of aphorism, our contemporaries Boris Krutitsky, Arkady Davidovich and Gennadium Malkina, Mikhail Mamchich and Eduard Borokhov, capacious, wise judgments of Leonid Shebarshin. There are rings of truly thunderstorm poetry of Leo Boleslavsky, imbued with a high civil intensity, there was a place for Russia and in the creative universe of the poet-cosmopolitan Igor Guberman, known for his tough irony and …
Author
Lavrukhin A.V.
Editor
Demina E.V.
Publisher
Olmamediagrupp/Education, 2013
Series
Gift publications (offset)
6+
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