Loneliness of a contact person. Diaries of 1953-1998

About fifty years, the St. Petersburg prose writer, playwright and screenwriter Semyon Laskin (1930-2005) kept a diary. Twenty -four notebooks - a kind of chronicle of the life of the Soviet creative intelligentsia for several cultural eras - from a thaw to post -Soviet time. The narrative included many persons, events, conversations that captured the spirit of time, his main hopes, fears and disappointment. The through heroes of the diary and permanent interlocutors of Laskin are key figures of post -war Soviet culture: V. Aksenov, G. Gorin, I. Averbakh, D. Granin and others. Some meetings were not continued, but remained captured: with A. Akhmatova, I. Ehrenburg , V. Kaverin. Another important part of the diary was the stories about friendship with St. Petersburg artists A. Samokhvalov, P. Kondratyev, R. Frumak, I. Zisman. The book was compiled by the explanatory texts to it was written by the son of a writer, historian and prose writer Alexander Laskin