Victor Konetsky. Echo

This unique book includes works of fiction, memoirs, essays, and correspondence by Viktor Konetsky. Its heroes include Yuri Kazakov, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, William Saroyan, Veniamin Kaverin, Lev Kopelev, Sergei Dovlatov, Ales Adamovich, Viktor Shklovsky, Oleg Dal, Bella Akhmadulina, Arthur Hailey, aircraft designer Lev Kerber, and famous Russian captains. Viktor Konetsky was friends with many of them and corresponded frequently and extensively. In his personal correspondence, generously annotated by Konetsky's memoirs, they emerge from unexpected perspectives. And, of course, the personality of Viktor Konetsky himself, whose work has become part of the golden age of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century, creates a special backdrop.