Открытая дверь

Vladimir Lakshin - a famous magazine figure, critic, doctor of philology - is a brilliant storyteller, as evidenced by the literary cycles about Blok, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Ostrovsky, which TV viewers remember well. His book is an attempt at an autobiography of a writer who has been working in Soviet literature for 30 years. But the autobiography is unusual - the author talks not so much about himself, but about the people who largely determined his fate. A chain of living stories is united by portraits of A. Tvardovsky, S. Marshak, O. Berggolts, N. Gudziya, A. Solzhenitsyn, General A. Gorbatov and many others.

The author introduces the atmosphere of the editorial office of "New World", reproduces stories about M. Bulgakov and A. Platonov.