Искренне ваш Шурик

The hero of the novel "Sincerely Yours Shurik" is a bright character in the gallery of portraits of Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Here, according to the author, "the local problem of the relationship between the son and the mother, the subordination of a person to a sense of duty and the losses associated with this. The shade of love - selfish maternal, disinterested sons, a kind of incest on a spiritual level, as well as the feelings and experiences of various women - lonely, unhappy, frivolous, often aggressive towards a hero who is full of benevolence and the best intentions, but cannot make anyone happy. And even vice versa." The novel "Sincerely Yours Shurik" was awarded the "Best Prose of 2004" award.