The sun is dead. Shmelev I.

“The Sun of the Dead” by I. S. Shmelev is one of the most tragic and at the same time poetic books in the world literature of the 20th century. The writer with biblical simplicity describes the capture of Crimea by the Reds and the “new order” of life. But behind the external changes, the artist’s view distinguishes more: the beginning of the Apocalypse, the global destruction of the world and man. Nevertheless, the book is optimistic in spirit. And this is her deep secret.