Author and the character: the identification problem (Book review: Lekmanov O., Sverdlov M., Simanovsky I. Venedikt Erofeev: the Outsider)
The book by O. Lekmanov, M. Sverdlov and I. Simanovsky «Venedikt Erofeev: the outsider», which won the Big Book National Literary Award in 2019, is a synthesis of Venedikt Erofeev’s biography (memoirs of the contemporaries, diaries, letters) and a literary analysis of his poem Moskva-Petushki.