Inability to distort: ​​articles, essays, interviews. Yuryev O.A.

“Inability to distort” the third (and the second in the publishing house of Ivan Lumbach) Book of articles and essays Oleg Yuryev. Among the heroes and the new book Ilya Zdanevich, Konstantin Vaginov, Nikolai Oleinikov, Red Grachev, Mikhail Yeremin, Oleg Grigoryev, and also the Petersburg text, Yakov Protazanov, Marilyn Monroiss, Ulysses and his mythology; The situations and conditions in which the world has such power over its writer that the writer has no power over his world and is not able to distort it. The first section offers the reader outstanding articles about Russian writers, more or less known. The second section contains subjective and very personal notes about books, but not only about them, it is more intellectual prose than literary criticism. The third section contains an interview with Oleg Yuryev and sometimes rather unexpected answers to questions of various publications. We hope that this book will stand on the shelf of readers who are interested in the history and practice of Russian literature of the 20th century.