Between flight and freedom

Between flight and freedom As Alexander Petrovich Sokolov connected many contrasts — and cancelled them as superfluous on November 6 80 years to Alexander Petrovich Sokolov — to one of the few recent Russian prose writers in relation to whom the word "great" does not look neither a compliment, nor exaggeration were executed. Three novels Alexander Petrovich Sokolov, published in 1970– ‍ 1980-‍ e in the American publishing house Ardis, opened the new opportunities missed by the Soviet literature in the XX century for the Russian prose. Its situation in the Russian literature is unique: the author who was not publishing new books of nearly 40 years, remaining modern, the writer, not...