In the recovery of eternal truths

Which genre to attribute this small book to? Monograph? Essay? Epistolar genre? Let the reader decide. But Igor Zolotusky, the hero of the book, know many, in any case, in the literary community. He gave more than half a century to the service of elegant literature. Each of the dozens of his books is a noticeable contribution to the literary process of the country. The top of his work as a literary critic is a study of the life and work of N.V. Gogol.
S. Norilsky is the author of books about the poet D. Kugultinov, prose writers I. Minnoko, N. Parygina, V. Maslov and others, about the outstanding mineralog N.M. Fedorovsky, about the famous astronomer and astrophysicist N.A. Kozyrev, about repressed clergymen.
We hope, the reader will appreciate the proposed job