Literature and History

"The Ring of Shadows"
The book by Mikhail Veller "The Ring of Shadows" opens with stories and tales "The Legend of the Cadet", "From Pushkin to Putin", "The Lament of the Chord" and others, and ends with the autobiographical novella "You... Will Answer for Your Words".
The book also includes earlier bestsellers: "Seryozha Dovlatov's Knife", "Kitchen and Corridors".
"Fire and Agony"
Mikhail Veller's book "Fire and Agony" — ironic in form and scandalous in essence — discusses why classics distort the consciousness of the intelligentsia, how the heroes of the golden period of Soviet culture drank champagne, where to find the truth about war, and who the great Russian poet Vladimir Vysotsky is.
"Alone on an Ice Floe"
Veller's book "Alone on an Ice Floe" includes both the previously published "Russian Martin Eden" — a novel about a Soviet writer "My Case", which became an intra-literary bestseller, and newly published works. The tale "Look Who Left" tells about the loud fame of the first Soviet "Sixties Man", the idol of that generation Anatoly Gladilin. A unique overview of world literature — the difference between writing a masterpiece and the success and recognition of a writer — concludes the collection.