Ochischenie proshlym. Portrety russkih pisateley

Eta kniga o pisatelyah, kotorye otnyud' ne chasto stoyat ryadom v dushah nashih chitateley. Naprimer: Yuriy Trifonov i Nikolay Ostrovskiy. Ili Vasiliy Grossman i Vasiliy Shukshin. Koe-gde, chtoby postavit' ih geroev ryadom, avtoru prishlos' potrudit'sya v arhivah: takova glava o vzaimootnosheniyah Maksima Gor'kogo i Andreya Platonova. Odnako pered nami vovse ne istoriya literatury, a skoree istoriya dushi, proshedshey cherez protivorechivye chitatel'skie iskusy. Poetomu Nikolay Ostrovskiy i Tengiz Abuladze zdes' - ne predstaviteli "zhanrov" ili "napravleniy", a lyudi edinogo pokoleniya - pokoleniya otcov, tochno tak zhe kak Shukshin i Trifonov - naglyadno razvedennye starshie brat'ya. Otnoshenie k nim sootvetstvennoe: lyubov' i revnostnyy spor. Stremlenie dokopat'sya: chto my takoe, otkuda my takie, pochemu takie? Za chto otvechaem sami, chem nagruzheny po nasledstvu? I voobsche: chto s nami proishodit?