Ten ten. Prose 2016–2020. Zorin L.G.

Late prose by Leonid Zorin (1924-2020) was written by a person who was transplanted for 90, but this is really prose, and not just memoirs of a much who saw and survived the writer, the famous playwright, whose plays decorate the theatrical scene to this day, and a remarkable. The film "Pokrovsky Gate", shot according to his script, remains loved for many generations. It will not be an exaggeration to say that this is intellectual prose, saturated with the most important issues - about the essence of man, about everyday life and holidays, about successes and failures, about the tricks of history, about love, about death, approximation and inevitability of which the author feels everything sharply, which creates a special existential stress in the book.

And of course, about creativity, and more specifically about writing, which, according to Zorin, both happiness, and hard labor, and secret, he does not tire of solving, peering into himself , in their abilities, in their indefatigable creative dissatisfaction. In addition to small stories, the book included the most recent recordings that the author conducted until the end of the days and which are a special genre, aphoristic and extremely capacious, which allows you to feel the natural, as breath, the daily work of understanding the end of life.