Father Shatunov. The life of Yuri Mamleev to the coffin and after

The biographies of the classics who have recently left us are written, as a rule, by their apologists generous with fir trees and extremely restrained where the shade of blocks of myths and cliches is required. However, Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev was lucky in this sense: he himself, like his associates, was not content with a superficial level of reality and always sought to look for him - and Eduard Lukoyanov, the author of the first critical biography of Mamleev, also acted.
The protagonist of the Father of Shatunov does not appear before us as a monument to himself, but as a living person with all his shortcomings, obsessive ideas and creative breakthroughs, and his strange retinue is as a commonality of terrible creatures that we like it or do we like it or No, the character and nature of modern Russian culture was largely determined