Victor Astafyev

It seems that there is no such part of the life and creativity of Viktor Astafieva, which the literary crists and journalists have not yet explored. A wide and close attention to the writer attracts, above all, artistic peculiarity and social acuity of his works. However, despite the visible abundance of materials, the absence of "white spots" in the biography of the writer, the wide range of admirers of his talent often does not have a one-piece idea of ​​his life, views, artistic principles. Although the author himself, a well-known journalist Y. Rostovtsev, believes that his book is just a stroke to the portrait, the pages of the writer"s creative fate, he managed to connect the materials in it into a single whole and trace the main milestones of the biography and creativity of Astafieva.
The book is designed for a wide range of readers.
2nd publication, supplemented