How I Was... Grudging Memoirs

The book by the famous Russian writer Yuri Polyakov, «How I Was... Grudging Memoirs», offers the reader a rare opportunity to peek into the author's creative laboratory, understand the path from the conception to the clean edit of the text,... and trace how life’s collisions, romantic experiences, and political and literary struggles grew into works that became bestsellers and beloved readings for millions. The collection includes fascinating memories of events that have now become history in Russian literature, vivid sketches of the manners of the creative environment and the political Olympus. «Grudging Memoirs» is written by a witty and unforgetting person, who artfully masters the word. The reader is in for quite unexpected discoveries, and many reputations that were flawless until now will turn out to be tarnished.