Довоенная книга: рассказы и повести

Letom 2022-go vopros "Gde vy byli poslednie vosemʹ let?" stal print͡sipialʹno vazhnym. I ostanetsi͡a takim eshche na mnogie desi͡atiletii͡a. I otvet na nego ne mozhet bytʹ kollektivnym - tolʹko individualʹnym. Potomu chto kollektivnai͡a otvetstvennostʹ nachinaetsi͡a s individualʹnoĭ. "Dovoennai͡a kniga" - otvet rossiĭskogo zhurnalista Mikhaila Sheveleva, kotoryĭ ushel iz ėtoĭ professii v 2014-m. Potomu chto ona stala trebovatʹ slishkom mnogo kompromissov. Togda avtor ėtogo sbornika rasskazov i povesteĭ reshil, chto on nichego ne teri͡aet, esli poprobuet napisatʹ chto-to ne reportazhnoe, no khudozhestvennoe. Pered vami rezulʹtat. Kniga byla sdana v izdatelʹstvo za tri mesi͡at͡sa do vazhnoĭ daty 24.02.2022. A doĭdet do chitateli͡a uzhe posle. Avtor reshil ne meni͡atʹ v ėtom tekste nichego.

In the summer of 2022, the question "Where have you been for the last eight years?" became fundamentally important. And it will remain so for many more decades. And the answer to it cannot be collective — only individual. Because collective responsibility begins with individual responsibility. "Pre—war Book" is the answer of the Russian journalist Mikhail Shevelev, who retired from this profession in 2014. Because she began to demand too many compromises. Then the author of this collection of short stories and novellas decided that he would lose nothing if he tried to write something not reportage, but artistic. Here is the result. The book was submitted to the publisher three months before the important date of 02/24/2022. And it will reach the reader after. The author decided not to change anything in this text.