Yuri Kazakov was a professional musician and writer, and for many of his contemporaries and those who were born after his death, remains one of the favorite prose writers. But it is not easy to find a volume of his stories on the bookshelves of stores, so the collection «Long Shouts», released by the Irkutsk publishing house, is a real gift for connoisseurs of Yuri Kazakov’s «sound» prose.
Yuri Kazakov was a professional musician and writer, and for many of his contemporaries and those who were born after his death, remains one of the favorite prose writers. But it is not easy to find a volume of his stories on the bookshelves of stores, so the collection «Long Shouts», released by the Irkutsk publishing house, is a real gift for connoisseurs of Yuri Kazakov’s «sound» prose. The main talent of the writer was his amazing ability to equally love and unite the incompatible: the city and the countryside, classical music and jazz, Soviet and émigré literature, physicists and lyricists, the romance of the North and Moscow home comfort … His stories are piercing, tender, «sounding», written beautiful, uncluttered Russian language, which the children of the new millennium no longer know, evoke sadness and a feeling of great happiness — the opportunity to “hear” another life and another time. Separately, the remarkable, deeply personal preface to the book, written by the writer Dmitry Shevarov, deserves mention.
Publisher Sapronov, 552 p.