Feelings and things

He was rich in books - and essays - two types: in some he popularized science, talked about art, literature, great historical events and personalities, and this was useful and exciting, but many were able to. Then serious scientists who were replaced from official science, and honest journalists who were easier to talk about the geniuses of the past than about the dubious idols of the present were engaged in popularization. Better about Mozart than about Brezhnev, right? And there were essays on the second type - about judicial mistakes, administrative sadism, about neglect of private fate, about broken biographies, about the lead to suicide, about the tragedies that seemed everyday and turned out to be global. Then everyone called the “household” in a row, up to the deepest, innovative novels of Trifonov. But that "life" was an order of magnitude more complicated than the current culture and philosophy. By the then standards, he was rich in one of the leading essayist, but nothing more. It is evident today that he was a master of documentary prose, one of the creators of "new journalism", whose top achievements are comparable to the best essays of the creators of this direction - Thomas Wulf, Norman Meler, Hunter Thompson.
Dmitry Bykov