Collected Works. Volume 1. 1980-1987

The first volume of the collected works includes those famous stories with which Yuri Polyakov entered Russian literature in the mid-1980s, becoming one of the brightest artistic phenomena of the last years of the existence of the Union. Today, this once semi-banned prose has not aged at all; on the contrary, like a well-aged wine, it has acquired special value. Written by a master, it is read with unwavering interest and allows for a better understanding of the past, without which today is incomprehensible. Want to understand why the Union collapsed? Read Polyakov. Want to understand why the Union could have been preserved? Read Polyakov…