Мост через Лету

Yuri Galperin, one of the most interesting Russian prose writers of the second half of the 20th century, is almost unknown in Russia. Three of his main things - "Playing the Blues", "Bridge over Leta" and "Russian Version" - could not be published in Soviet Russia. They became available to the general reader at home only in the mid-nineties, but they were drowned in the stream of "returned literature". This, of course, is unfair.
According to Andrey Bitov, "Galperin gravitates towards the cultural branch that Nabokov has grafted onto the trunk of Russian literature." Indeed, Galperin's ironic, stylish, intelligent prose is comparable in purity and mastery to Nabokov's; however, with one difference: Galperin's prose is warmer and more humane, it is addressed primarily to the reader's lively and direct emotions.