SORRY FOR THE TITLE!When I read what you will read on the next page, I felt a little uneasy. I don't like words like that, even with a diminutive or affectionate suffix. I once had a chance to use the (clichéd, by the way) expression “the eternal Jew” and I received a scolding from a reader. Eternity does not save the Jew. Although the writer Andre Gide received the Nobel Prize. And then I lowered my eyes to the next line and read: “Memoir.” This mitigated the unpronounceability of the name. I've always had a soft spot for words that aren't in any dictionary, and this was just such a word. It exists only in the plural, implying many events. But the author is young, there are few events in his life, maybe it’s better to limit himself to just one? Subsequently, over time, the author will accumulate events and write a memoir, then another memoir, and as a result he will get a memoir. While reading the memoir, I found myself laughing. Why am I laughing, brothers? Maybe I remembered something funny? Any anecdote or story from Zoshchenko? No, I laughed exactly at what I read. The memoir turned out to be funny, and sad, and different, but always fascinating. It seems to me that this memoir, even if only in the singular, will give readers the same pleasure that it gave me. Although I can’t vouch for all readers. Even Nobel laureate Andre Gide could not vouch for all readers. By the way, he is not at all what his last name represents; he was just born into the family of a lawyer. Don’t be confused by the abundance of ellipses inside the words. They testify to the author’s erudition and at the same time his delicacy. He expects the same from the reader. Felix Krivin