Memories and journalism. Olesha Yu.K.

Yuri Olesha is known primarily as a talented writer - a prose writer, a poet, a playwright, whose innovative, accurate, sincere, the word paved new ways in Russian literature of the Soviet era. However, the author himself attached great importance to journalism, valued his critical articles, considering them “close to the most important thing in his artistic work.” Theologists of the theater, reviews of specific works and free discussions about the art of the word as such. These are texts in which the artist’s creative fantasy gives way to tortured observation, strict thought, thoughtful analysis of the surrounding phenomena. Not interconnected by anything other than the personality of the author, they reveal for us his creative searches and intellectual acquisitions, his personal and deep attitude to the world and the word capturing this world.