Dresden passions. Gorenstein F.

The outstanding Russian writer of the second half of the 20th century Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002) is known as the author of the novels “Psalm”, “place”, stories “Winter of the 53rd year”, “Atonement”, “Steps”, plays “Sporas about Dostoevsky ”,“ Berdichev ”, scripts for the films“ Solaris ”and“ Slave of Love ”, as well as many other works. “Dresden passions” occupy a special place in his work this book cannot be completely attributed to artistic prose or journalism: both genres coexist in it on equal terms.

Entertaining plot - an ironic story about the participation of delegates from Russia in the First International Anti -Semitic Congress, held in 1882 in Dresden - serves as a reason for a deep psychological study of the first steps of "scientific" anti -Semitism and a reasonable conclusion about its inevitable connection With a socialist movement.