City En.

It is difficult to talk about Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (1894-1936) without the sadly-familiar expressions: "tragic figure", "unjustly condemned", "disappeared", "forgotten". He was a modest statistician from the Bryansk Gubstat Bureau, preferring that his name not be revealed in print: "Only... 'L. Dobychin', not 'Leonid', as some scoundrels do for unknown reasons". Korney Chukovsky especially believed in the talent of the prose writer, publishing his stories and helping him connect with other writers. Since Dobychin's rise in Soviet literature, he faced harsh condemnation for formalism: in 1936 the persecution of his first and only novel "City En" began, which offended and hurt the author. It is presumed he committed suicide immediately after a meeting on March 25 in the Leningrad House of Writers, "went to distant lands". Austrian researcher Elizabeth Markshtein remarked that his syntax is the syntax of absurdity. "Infantilism" can be considered the main psychological setting of Dobychin in "City En". It is a coming-of-age novel, "destroying the monotony of 'adult' consciousness with its discreteness". The collection also includes the author's major stories, such as "Meetings with Liz", "Dorian Gray", "Erygin", and some others.