Notes of a Psychopath

Venedict Erofeev is a writer and playwright, the author of the ingenious poem "Moscow-Petushki" (1970) and the play "Valpurgiiyev night" (1985) - the phenomenon in Russian literature is huge and not yet to the end of meaningful. In a brief autobiography, its "first-worthy Writing" Yerofeev calls "Note Psychopaths" (1956-1958), started at seventeen age, "the most voluminous and ridiculous from the written". For a long time, "Notes" did not publishes, while in his interviews Yerofeev stressed again and again, which considers this text worthy publication, but hardly believed in such an opportunity, because" notes" saturated "unexpected lexical turns, to put it mildly. And really complete, carefully verified text of the "Notes of Psychopata", I saw the light only in 2004. "When I was expelled from Moscow State University, said Venedik Erofeev in one of the interviews, I already wrote - purely youthful" notes of a psychopath. Classmates, those who read, said it is impossible that it is impossible to write. "You, Erofeev, do you want to be famous for the whole institute?" And I"m in response: I have intentions much larger! And unless it could answer this question to this question, the glory of which has long overcome the limits of the capital and the Petushkov themselves and whose books themselves are translated by more than thirty languages ​​of the world