Interrupted flight. Poems and prose. Vysotsky V.

Today, when the lifetime half -dumbfounds remained behind, the early posthumous praises went through and the period of the cultural canonization of Vladimir Vysotsky as a popular bard and an equally popular actor began, the uniqueness of his phenomenon became obvious, which, after decades, is not amenable to “appropriation”, turning into a transformation in The “tightly knocked down cast monument”, but continues to exist separately, follow “its rut” - “without insurance”, “in spite of ropes, cables, wires”, behind the line of “red flags”. This isolation, separateness, irrespectiveness to the common formulas and the beaten paths (which makes the author truly alive), paradoxically, is combined with his extraordinary susceptibility to other creative voices, for the figurative system of high poetry and proseisms of everyday speech, with openness of all kinds Styles and genres, topics and moods, poetic sizes and lyrical roles. Extensive - to the exposure of nerves - a sense of life and poetic truth, an absolute hearing that rejects any false intonation, an incredible variety of roles that are not played on stage and in the cinema, but lived in songs and poems - all this polyphony of meanings and images contained the pages of this book.

This edition presents an extensive set of poetic works created by Vladimir Vysotsky from the late 1950s to 1980, as well as the chosen prose of the poet.