Gromova N. Evgenij Shvarc. Sud'ba Ckazochnika v jepohu Drakona

Author	Gromova N.
Title	Evgenij Shvarc. Sud'ba Ckazochnika v jepohu Drakona
Description	Yevgeny Schwartz wrote fairy tales that were far more realistic than Soviet novels. In The Shadow and especially in The Dragon, he prophetically revealed the nature of slavery, of what would later be called “the banality of evil”: the everyday habit of living beside a tyrant. In an age of ruptures and losses, he returned to people their sense of being lost, friendship, love and hope, and spoke of them in such a way that it became easier to breathe. In his plays, Schwartz laughed at his mortally frightened contemporaries and at the same time pitied them, mourning their souls. Who was he really? A mocker, or a sage under the mask of a fool, who, by turning everyday words and meanings upside down, saw the world more clearly than anyone else. Schwartz belongs to those few artists who managed to carry an inner light through the darkness of their time and give people hope of healing. Natalia Gromova is a prose writer and literary historian. Until March 2022, she was a leading research fellow at the State Literary Museum in Moscow. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including the exhibition about Yevgeny Schwartz An Ordinary Magician. She lectures for Arzamas on Schwartz, Tsvetaeva and others. She is the author of a number of scholarly historical studies and documentary books on literary life, the evacuation of writers, post-war literary culture, Tsvetaeva, Bergholz, Pasternak and others. She was a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize in 2014 and for the Venets Prize of the Moscow Writers’ Union. She was also a finalist for the Big Book Prize in 2020.
Year	2026
Publisher	ISIA Media Verlag
Pages	420
Cover	Paperback
ISBN	978-3-68959-781-8

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