Big birds

Boris Mikhailovich Nosik (1931-2015), author of numerous books and television films about Russian emigration in France.
Biographer A. Schweitzer, A. Akhmatova, A. Modigliani, V. Nabokov, A. Benois, V. Zhukovsky, chronicler of Russian emigration in France, a brilliant translator of English -speaking authors, including I. in, J. Golsourcy , G. Pinter, Boris Mikhailovich Nosik, primarily a prose writer - smart, ironic and sad.
We reprint with small changes the book of the chosen prose of Boris Mikhailovich, compiled by the author of the works that he considered the most successful.
The heroes of Boris Nosik are unlucky people, unsettled, sometimes ridiculous, they suffer, lose their loved ones, subject to temptations, but always retain their own dignity and inner freedom. Freedom is also characteristic of the author of the author - in his novels, stories, stories, sadness and laughter, household details with a grotesque, a tragedy with a farce coexist