Spelling

Dmitry Bykov- prose writer, poet, publicist, radio and television journalist. His lectures of the “Direct Speech” cycle are enormous. The author of many novels and the original literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice laureate of the Big Book Prize.
In the novel “Spelling”, Dmitry Bykov draws a picture of the post -revolutionary Petrograd. Hunger, cold, books are burning in furnaces, no one understands that it will bring new time, but they have already excluded the letter “yat”, and with it - Russian literacy. Fear and search for truth, honor and betrayal, special humor, special love of abyss on the edge. The heroes of the exciting adventurous narrative live in these decorations.
“Spelling”-the second novel of “O-trilogy.”
“Spelling”-probably the most unusual novel about the Russian Revolution, a novel about the reform of spelling from the point of view of the letter , about the collapse of the world - from the point of view of a person who no longer has a place in him. This is a book written on reliable historical material, but actually it is much more about what will happen now. Right now. Here with you.
Dmitry Bykov