Moskovskaya telefonnaya knizhka. Dnevniki 1942-1956 gg.

Dnevniki Shvarca - osobaya chast' ego tvorcheskogo naslediya. On nachal vesti ih v 1926 godu. Pravda, v nachale voyny mnogoe prishlos' szhech'. Zapisi zhe, kotorye on delal s 1942 goda, sohranilis'. V svoih dnevnikah avtor stavil pered soboy dve zadachi: nauchit'sya pisat' prozoy, schitaya dlya dramaturga eto ochen' vazhnym, i nayti naibolee tochnye slova dlya peredachi chuvstv, sobytiy i nastroeniy v tot ili inoy moment zhizni. Sozdal v nih Shvarc i galereyu portretov sovremennikov, sredi kotoryh Korney Chukovskiy, Samuil Marshak, Sergey Gorodeckiy, Yuriy German, Dmitriy Shostakovich, Irakliy Andronikov i mnogie drugie. Obo vseh Shvarc rasskazyvaet teplo i ironichno, poroy yazvitel'no, pokazyvaya znamenityh lyudey s sovershenno neozhidannoy storony.