Erika Zhiro, or an incident from my life

Boris Black (1937-2012), the descendant of the Amur Cossacks, the famous Far Eastern Prose and Publicist, was born in one of the capitals of Gulag - the city is free. He entered the literature in Irkutsk at the beginning of the sixties of the last century, together with A. Vampilov and V. Rasputin. And in 1982, he was convicted for "anti-Soviet agitation among young people" and for five years he served in the notorious Perm camps. The recommendation to the Union of Writers, already at access to freedom, he gave him the Fazil Iskander, and the first thin book of the stories, published in the library of the magazine "Ogonek", immediately brought B. Black All-Russian fame. In Yaroslavl, the writer created the famous newspaper of the literary province of "Enchanted Wanderer", and in Blagoveshchensk - "Russian Coast". The book "Erika Zhroo, or the case of my life" includes the best prose of the author - his stories and essays