Phone book. Memories

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The book of memoirs of the author of “The Shadow” and “An Ordinary Miracle”, “Dragon” and the script for “Cinderella”, the sage and storyteller Evgeniy Schwartz, called at home “Phone Book”, has no analogues in memoir literature. Firstly, this is real prose, written exclusively for oneself, without regard to contemporaries or censorship, and therefore absolutely truthful. Secondly, this is noble prose, just as its creator is noble - devoid of envy and whining, strict towards the author himself and fair to the life characters depicted in it. Why "Phone Book" and not just "Book of Memories"? Because the draft for memory was a real telephone book with the names of real people whom the writer met in life - from “A” to “Z”. From the famous, eminent, illustrious, caressed by the love of the people to the little ones of this world who do not claim special fame - a telephone installer or a theater dressmaker. Schwartz himself formulated the task of creating the book as follows: “I write about living people, whom I examine to the best of my ability in detail and accurately, like a natural phenomenon. I’ve been scared recently that the people of the most difficult times, who under its pressure took or did not take the most complex forms, who changed imperceptibly for themselves or stubbornly did not notice the changes around them, will disappear. No, it's easier. I'm scared that everything that is making noise and living around now will die, and no one will even say a word about them - the living ones. And this is not entirely accurate. It seems to me that any living person is a historical person - and so on, and so on. So I write, naming the names of historical figures.” And the writer completed this task with honor.

Barcode: 9785389238169 SKU: 70183038 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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