Калмановский - Мое Собранье Лиц. Жизнь. Книги и Люди

The works of Evgeny Kalmanovsky (two books published under the same cover) are a kind of “novel of education”: a person seeking and thirsting for spiritual supports and ideals will find here detailed and by no means edifying stories about destinies and books that can give strength to live, to define the meaning of her path.

It opens with the story “Days and Years. The Life of T.N. Granovsky.” This is a book of historical prose, based on the law of personal experience, personal excitement. This is followed by sketches and essays dedicated to I.A. Goncharov, M.N. Katkov, P.V. Schumacher, D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak, Moscow Art Theater actor Artem, theater critic N.E. Efros and others...< /p>

In the second part, the author writes about books, their creators - and the excitement that they caused in his soul. Without separating all this from the other contents of life, as in fact it is. This is a book of reflections, critical sketches, autobiographical prose, memoirs.

Its heroes are G. Gukovsky, E. Shvarts, O. Efremov, E. Uspensky, A. Kim, R. Gabriadze and other famous people of national culture. The personality of the author gives coherence and certainty to the narrative. He sought to find meaning in books and human destinies, especially important not only for him, but for today’s time, modern life, as he understood it.