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The Book of Being

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"We have not deflected a single blow from ourselves..." Sergei Aleksandrovich Snegov (1910-1994), a famous fiction writer, could rightfully refer to himself these Akhmatov's lines. His "Book of Being" - an invaluable, first-hand testimony of a man who had to live in an era of very big changes. The story of a boy, Odessa bosyak, gifted and daring, develops against the backdrop of the upheavals of the revolution, the first Soviet difficult years, the terror of the thirties. Snegov managed to recreate the world of a child, a teenager - willful, dependent on praise, seeking adventure, suffering and sometimes cruel. Gradually, the hero of the memoir masculinizes, and here is a promising young scientist lectures at the university. However, unconventionality is dangerous in the land of total equality imposed by force. And so the arrest in 1936 seems almost inevitable ...
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