Pamyatnye zapiski

V konce 1960-h godov, na poroge svoego pyatidesyatiletiya David Samoylov obratilsya k proze. Rabota nad zavetnoy knigoy prodolzhalas' do smerti poeta. V PAMYaTNYH ZAPISKAH vospominaniya o detstve, otrochestve, yunosti, godah voyny i strashnom poslevoennom semiletii organichno soedinilis' s razmyshleniyami o noveyshey istorii, putyah Rossii i russkoy intelligencii, sud'be i naznachenii literatury v XX veke. Sredi geroev knigi "poslednie genii" (Nikolay Zabolockiy, Boris Pasternak, Anna Ahmatova), starshie sovremenniki Samoylova (Mariya Petrovyh, Il'ya Sel'vinskiy, Leonid Martynov), ego blizhayshie druz'ya-sverstniki, pogibshie na Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyne (Mihail Kul'chickiy, Pavel Kogan) i vybravshie raznye dorogi vo vtoroy polovine veka (Boris Sluckiy, Nikolay Glazkov, Sergey Narovchatov).