Lev Kopelev. Mayer R.

The hero of this book, Lev Zinovievich Kopelev (1912-1997), is a figure outstanding in every way. A major scientist, a German philologist, he left a noticeable mark in the history of two countries at once - Russia and Germany. But in our country he is known not so much as a scientist, but as a fighter with a totalitarian regime, the dissident (although Kopelev himself did not love the word and never called himself). About the difficult life path of Leo Kopelev, about how to turn the ideological Komsomol member, a faithful Leninz into a fighter with a regime, and the author, who personally knew Kopelev, also tells both his meetings in Moscow, before his forced emigration to Germany, and after he settled down In this country, which became his second homeland. Much attention is paid to the book by the relations of Kopelev and Solzhenitsyn - at first close friends, sowls according to the famous “Marfin Sharashka”, and then implacable ideological opponents.