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The heroes of the new book by the famous writer, researcher of Russian literature of the 20th century Natalia Gromova are her “eternal companions” - Olga Berggolts, Charles Dickens, Yuri Olesha, Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Sharov, Evgeny Schwartz, Anton Chekhov, Marina Tsvetaeva...
“I feel more and more that we live in, albeit terrible, but biblical times. Inside the Big Story. That is why the behavior of each individual person will affect his fate and the fate of his descendants. Each signature for murder will become a dirty, indelible seal. You just need to know it. Taking classes in the history of Soviet literature showed me a lot; including the cross that the descendants carried. But now everything is much more serious.
People think that Schwartz’s “Dragon” is a fairy tale. And Schwartz said that this is the absolute truth. Because it turns the pitiful, cowardly insides of people inside out. And everyone recognizes themselves. When they are forbidden to look up so as not to see the Dragon’s severed head flying.”