The sun rises and sets

The hero of this book is the famous writer Yevgeny Popov, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, laureate of the prestigious awards, whose books are translated into many languages. His works in many respects determined the development of Russian prose of the last third of the XX - the beginning of the current century. He wrote all his life and writes hilariously laughing and at the same time deeply penetrating the essence of the national character of things. This book is about a person who has been connected with literature all his life, official and unofficial. Few people know so much about the genuine essence of the past and current literary life of the country, the laws of ups and downs of writing reputations. So the book is also about the secret and obvious springs of the literary mechanism, which in the old time, now. It can be studied by the history of Russian literature over the past 50 years