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Aphorisms of the famous satirist, laureate of the "Golden Calf" award of the Club of 12 Chairs of the Literary Newspaper Mikhail Genin and memories of famous writers about him

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"In my library, next to the books of satirists and comedians, there are books by authors who wrote aphorisms. It is a pity that among them there is not at least a "pocket" book of aphorisms by Misha Genin! I would love to buy it!" Yuri Nikulin

Now there is such a book!

The aphorisms of Mikhail Genin are constantly included in anthologies of wise thoughts. In the collection of aphorisms of world literature, published in 2009 by the German publishing house Reclam Bibliothek, his "Eternal Thoughts" are on a par with the sayings of F. Bacon, B. Pascal, J. Swift, G. Lichtenberg, J. W. Goethe, < br />F. Schlegel, A. Schopenhauer, M. Twain, F. Nietzsche, O. Wilde, B. Shaw, F. Kafka, S. E. Letz.
Many of his sayings were quoted so often that
turned into proverbs.

So, in this book:
"Eternal Thoughts" - aphorisms by Mikhail Genin

And also a large section
Mikhail Genin speaking —
talking to him —
talking about him:

Who's talking about him?
Vladimir Voinovich, Vladimir Kunin, Igor Irteniev, Arkady Khait, Grigory Gorin and many others.

The book includes selected aphorisms and miniatures of Mikhail Genin, "one of the most prominent and faithful knights of the Beautiful Lady, whose name is Aphoristic Thought" (Grigory Gorin), memories of him and reviews of his work by Yuri Nikulin, Vladimir Voinovich, Arkady Khait, Vladimir Kunin, Igor Irtenyev and others, his own memories of a military childhood, a conversation with Matvey Ganapolsky on Ekho Moskvy, drawings by Vagrich Bakhchanyan and much more, as well as unknown photographs from the family archive.

The book was illustrated by Igor Oleinikov, winner of the H. K. Andersen Prize - 2018, the most prestigious award in the field of children's literature.