55. New and Best

The new book by literary critic, cultural manager, and perhaps we can now say - historian of literature, Alexey Kolobrodov - is a broad and diverse canvas of literary life in recent decades, a convincing and multicolored sketch of literary names and morals.

When a stream of sad statements about the crisis and imminent end of Russian literary criticism was flowing, Alexey was creating his panorama, not forgetting to recall the classics and stars of past days on relevant occasions, weaving in deep and paradoxical essays of Vasily Shukshin and Robert L. Stevenson, Yegor Letov and Mikhail Shufutinsky, adding fresh traits to the literary portraits of his regular characters - Eduard Limonov, Joseph Brodsky, Zakhar Prilepin, Viktor Pelevin. The book is aimed at a wide audience of readers interested in the free movement of Russian life and Russian literature.