Yuri Trifonov (1925–1981), the most popular writer of the era of late socialism, the founder of urban/Moscow prose as a literary movement, still remains “underread,” the author of the book believes. “I write about death ("Exchange") - they tell me that I write about everyday life; I write about love (“The Long Goodbye”) - they say it’s also about everyday life; I’m writing about the breakdown of a family (“Preliminary results”) - again I hear about everyday life; I’m writing about a person’s struggle with mortal grief (“Another Life”) — they’re talking about everyday life again,” Trifonov lamented. At the same time, both his life and his works reflected both the failures and the peaks of the great Soviet experiment in the just reorganization of life. The son of repressed parents - and, despite this, a graduate of the prestigious Literary Institute, who already received the Stalin Prize for his diploma story “Students”; connected by his first marriage with Beria’s “friend” - and later, bypassing the “Iron Curtain”, traveling halfway around the world as a sports journalist; a successful writer - and did not wait for the publication of his main work “The House on the Embankment” as a separate book... Semyon Ekshtut, historian, Doctor of Philosophy, tried to look at the writer in the context of the “great historical time” and discovered a big-picture philosopher who predicted the reasons in his work for for whom the great experiment failed. Many of S. Ekshtut’s judgments, as always, are unexpected, polemical, provocative - with an attitude towards debate - but this is why they are interesting, and perhaps useful, which, of course, is for the reader to judge. sign of information products 16+