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 mother, the subordination of a person to a sense of duty and the losses associated with this.

Shades of love - selfish maternal, disinterested filial, a kind of incest on a spiritual level, as well as a whole gallery of feelings of various women - lonely, unhappy, frivolous, often aggressive towards the hero, who is full of goodwill and the best intentions, but cannot make happy. And even vice versa.”