The well-known essayist, philosopher and philologist in Russia and far beyond its borders speaks this time with memoir prose. Grigory Pomerantz survived Stalingrad, the camps, and dissidence, but the book is interesting not only and not so much for the events as for the thoughts and feelings generated by them. In ups and downs, a person’s personality is formed, and the reader enters into dialogue with one of the most interesting contemporaries and goes along with the author along the path of spiritual labor as the only opportunity for transformation.

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