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Kniga vospominaniĭ avtora "Teni" i "Obyknovennogo chuda", "Drakona" i st͡senarii͡a k "Zolushke", mudret͡sa i skazochnika Evgenii͡a Shvart͡sa, nazvannai͡a po-domashnemu "Telefonnoĭ knizhkoĭ", v memuarnoĭ literature analogov ne imeet. Vo-pervykh, ėto nastoi͡ashchai͡a proza, napisannai͡a iskli͡uchitelʹno dli͡a sebi͡a, bez ogli͡adki na sovremennikov i t͡senzuru, i poėtomu absoli͡utno pravdivai͡a. Vo-vtorykh, ėto blagorodnai͡a proza, kak blagoroden ee sozdatelʹ, - lishennai͡a zavisti i nytʹi͡a, strogai͡a k samomu avtoru i spravedlivai͡a k izobrazhennym v neĭ zhiznennym personazham. Pochemu "Telefonnai͡a knizhka", a ne prosto "Kniga vospominaniĭ"? Potomu chto chernovikom dli͡a pami͡ati byla realʹnai͡a telefonnai͡a knizhka s familii͡ami realʹnykh li͡udeĭ, s kotorymi vstrechalsi͡a pisatelʹ v zhizni, - ot "A" do "I͡A". Ot izvestnykh, imenitykh, proslavlennykh, oblaskannykh li͡ubovʹi͡u narodnoĭ do malykh mira sego, ne pretendui͡ushchikh na osobui͡u slavu, - mastera po ustanovke telefonov ili teatralʹnoĭ portnikhi. Sam Shvart͡s zadachu sozdanii͡a knigi sformuliroval tak: "I͡A pishu o zhivykh li͡udi͡akh, kotorykh rassmatrivai͡u po mere sil podrobno i tochno, slovno i͡avlenie prirody. Mne strashno s nedavnikh por, chto li͡udi slozhneĭshego vremeni, pod ego davleniem prinimavshie ili ne prinimavshie slozhneĭshie formy, meni͡avshiesi͡a nezametno dli͡a sebi͡a ili uporno ne zamechavshie peremen vokrug, - ischeznut. Net, proshche. Mne strashno, chto vse, chto seĭchas shumit i zhivet vokrug, - umret, i nikto ikh i slovom ne pomi͡anet - zhivushchikh. I ėto ne vpolne tochno. Mne kazhetsi͡a, chto li͡uboe zhivoe lit͡so - ėto istoricheskoe lit͡so - i tak dalee, i tak dalee. Vot i͡a i pishu, nazyvai͡a imena i familii istoricheskikh lit͡s". I ėtu postavlennui͡u zadachu pisatelʹ vypolnil s chestʹi͡u.

The book of memoirs by the author of "The Shadow" and "An Ordinary Miracle", "The Dragon" and the script for "Cinderella", the sage and storyteller Eugene Schwartz, called the "Phone Book" at home, has no analogues in the memoir literature. Firstly, this is real prose, written exclusively for oneself, without regard to contemporaries and censorship, and therefore absolutely true. Secondly, it is noble prose, as its creator is noble, devoid of envy and whining, strict to the author himself and fair to the life characters depicted in it. Why a "Phone book" and not just a "Book of memories"? Because the draft for memory was a real phone book with the names of real people the writer had met in his life, from "A" to "Z". From the famous, famous, illustrious, caressed by the love of the people to the small of this world, who do not claim special fame, they are masters of installing telephones or a theatrical dressmaker. Schwartz himself formulated the task of creating the book as follows: "I write about living people, whom I consider in detail and accurately as much as possible, like a natural phenomenon. I have been afraid lately that people of the most difficult time, who under its pressure took or did not take the most complex forms, changed imperceptibly for themselves or stubbornly did not notice the changes around them, will disappear. No, it's easier. I am afraid that everything that is making noise and living around now will die, and no one will remember them by a word — the living. And this is not entirely accurate. It seems to me that any living person is a historical person — and so on, and so on. So I write, naming the names and surnames of historical figures." And the writer fulfilled this task with honor.