Personalities: Among Contemporaries

The new book by Alexander Genis ("Kamasutra of the Bookworm", "Return Address", "Glass Bead Games") is written in the author's genre of "hero and surroundings". By combining masterfully crafted portraits with subtle analysis and vivid memories, Genis has created a gallery of outstanding contemporaries who made up his circle. It included the best writers and poets of the Third Wave — Sinyavsky, Brodsky, the author's beloved friends: Dovlatov, Bakhchanyan, Losev, as well as many other inhabitants of the literary landscape.