I love to be surprised. Schwartz E.L.

The diaries of Evgeny Schwartz have long taken their place in a huge and diverse layer of literature. It would seem, for him, the playwright-tale, the description of the non-minded is a departure from the nature of his gift. But it turned out differently - new colors appeared in his gift. In the 1950s, in the records of E. Schwartz, another narrative began to form in parallel: Memories. The past in his diaries was intertwined with the present: "In them you feel the living human being of the author, as he was on the day when he wrote." The diaries became for E. Schwartz a real creative laboratory. He seemed to write sketches from nature, created sketches for portraits with an indispensable condition not to correct himself, to maintain the immediacy of the first impressions, the acuteness of the emotional reaction. We are not allowed to get into the secret depths of the writer’s personality, but his records make it possible to touch her. Letters help this. Those who are published in this book are addressed to people creatively connected with Schwartz: director Nikolai Akimov, poets Samuel Marshak and Korney Chukovsky, film director Grigory Kozintsev and many others.