My diamond crown
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“Pamphlet memoir novel”, “Autobiographical Tale”, “White-Dead Memoirs”, “Diary of Memory”, “Roman-West”-such is a far from a full series of characteristics of Valentin Kataev’s book “My Diamond Crown” (1978), whose genre was difficult to determine and determined and The author himself. From the very first pages, the reader finds himself on the territory of the “strange republic of geniuses, prophets, genuine poets and mediocre poems, artisans and losers”, in the colorful atmosphere of the literary life of Moscow, Odessa and Kharkov of the 1920s, next to Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Yesenin. , Bagritsky, Olesh, Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov and other writers of the time that are bred under the conditional nicknames-masks and are with the author in difficult relations of friendship-revolutions (“for friendship between poets is nothing more than hostility inside out ) This biased, emphasized and even defiantly biased view of his own youth, at the time performed by sharp contrasts, at people who rotated in the “magnetic field of the revolution”, in the release of the book, gave rise to a string of contradictory reviews, he retains considerable interest today - as a manifestation of the manifestation of Free flight of imagination based on true incidents
Author:
Author:Kataev V.P.
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series: ABC-classic. Non-Fiction
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-16601-1
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