The connection of times. Notes of a grateful person. In the Old World

Brodsky believed that Igor Efimov continues the great tradition of Russian writers-philosophers, leading his origin from Herzen. And now, publishing a dozen of the novels and half a dozen of philosophical books, Efimov wrote his own version of the "former and Dum.
From the first volume of his memories - "in the old world" - the reader learns that his life in Russia passed under the slogan "not believe, do not be afraid, do not ask up long before this slogan was minted with Solzhenitsyn. Already in school years, he did not believe newspaper and radio finachada - only Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy. And he was not afraid to entertain the colleague, who was threatened by the shooting. And for the chamber of the poet, the future of the Nobel laureate. It was not afraid to spread forbidden literature and printed abroad in those years when they were given to seven years of the camps ... Efimov was lucky - he had a chance to live to return his books to Russia