Living as life. About Russian. Chukovsky K.I.

Many readers in childhood get acquainted with Chukovsky’s work, remembering his poems for life, but often this acquaintance ends. Meanwhile, everyone's favorite classic of children's literature was a critic, translator, prose writer, linguist, literary critic, and memoirist.

Chukovsky-translator gave the Russian reader a whole library of works of English and American literature, Chukovsky-memoir-a magnificent gallery of portraits of his contemporaries, who are rightfully considered one of the best samples of the memoir prose of the twentieth century, Chukovsky-research-famous books-famous books About the Russian language, which have wound up a high assessment of specialists and for many decades, who have used the love of the widespread reader. One of these books is “living as life”, in which the author, in no way flirting with the reader, easily and fascinatingly tells with vivid examples what a complex, interesting, wisely arranged self -regulatory system - Russian language.