Ispoved' literaturoveda: kak ponimat' knigi ot Dostoevskogo do Kinga [Confession

'The reality in my country is of such a nature that no fiction can be compared with it. Dostoevsky understood this perfectly. Therefore, the main quality for a writer in Russia, in my opinion, is not so much imagination as the ability to notice details. ' - Nikolai Zharinov In the book of Nikolai Zharinov there are no great literary analyzes. And what is the point in them after the books of Bakhtin, Lotman, Dunaev, Nabokov and others? No, this is a story about how art is intertwined with the life of an ordinary person. The author tells about five writers whose works accompanied him during the most significant moments of his life. And through his recollections, we see how the attitude towards Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky changes with age, why King's books become the best friends of adolescents and how Bunin managed to turn vulgar stories into true art. This is a confession, from beginning to end, subjective, personal, not claiming to be true. Argue, disagree, criticize - nothing i