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Esli by Pushkin Zhil v Nashe Vremia...

This book by the well-known critic, Benedikt Sarnov, includes articles written over many years for various periodicals. The title of the book is prompted by a humorous remark from a story by Zoshchenko: "If Pushkin lived in our time, we would carry him in our arms and would make the poet`s life absolutely miraculous!" Sarnov (1927-2014) tells about the "miraculous life" arranged for writers by the Soviet political regime and literary censorship. Apart from Pushkin, the book discusses V. Rozanov, M. Zoshchenko, V. Shklovskii, N. Korzhavin, Iu. Olesha, V. Voinovich, B. Okudzhava, A. Galich, V. Vysotskii, and others.