Collected works in 15 volumes. Volume 13. Diary (1936–1969). Chukovsky K.I.

The third book of the Diary in content and tonality of records is sharply different from the previous ones. The author’s personal troubles also reflected on these pages-the death of his son, the death of his wife, the persecution of the anti-war fairy tale “Odul Barmaley” and the hardships experienced by society in the 30-40s. There are gaps, many torn pages in diarybooks. On the surviving pages, the echoes of the tragedy of Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Vasily Grossman, Fadeeva.

, from the mid -fifties, such books such as “High Art”, “From Two to Five”, have been published for the first time are printed “from the mid -fifties. Contemporaries ”,“ Living as life ”,“ Chekhov ”. Chukovsky receives the Lenin Prize and honorary title of Doctor of Literature Oxford.