Антология Сатиры и Юмора России XX века. Том 8 | Алешковский Иосиф

the fantastic story "Nikolai Nikolaevich", the mournful story "The Modest Blue Handkerchief", just the stories "Disguise", "Flea Tango", songs, poems, lines ... However, Joseph Brodsky found another, precise and comprehensive definition of the writer's work, poet, screenwriter, author and performer of his own songs: "... with a few exceptions ... Aleshkovsky's works are, in essence, dramatic monologues. To be more precise, parts of a single dramatic monologue into which all the author's creative activity merges." serves as the article by I. Brodsky "He came out of the prison padded jacket", written in New York in 1995 and dedicated to the work of Aleshkovsky, the afterword is the article by Andrey Bitov "Repetition of the past", and "after the foreword" - "Autobiographical note", written by Aleshkovsky himself and quite worthy of being considered a separate literary work.
Many photographs from the author's archive are published for the first time.