Without beginning or end. Part 1

Author - younger contemporary Huberman, Vysotsky, Dovlatov - found the opportunity to express themselves adequately (and, therefore, self) in the form of a diary. This form involves looseness and freedom, full, up to the end, frankness. Diary entries 1970-2003 biennium. They are the pivot on which are strung the outline of different genres: short stories, novels, essays, parables, historical background, philosophical, moral, cultural and aesthetic essays ... Thanks to them, for the time is accelerated, then slowed down and even turn back the clock, and communication is the beginning of the main the character of these records, building their own destiny through the text and are constantly changing, but the faithful themselves in changing circumstances: in the army barracks, in the joys and troubles of family life, his desk, in the vast Russian hinterland, guestrooms provincial hotels, the student audience , friendly feasts, adventures - on the road, which is (literally and figuratively) is a through-motif of the whole work. The immediate impression, affection, passion, accompanied by intense meditation on "world problems" with no claim to "the last word"; through the details of the private life of bygone era shines with its large-scale events and unique aroma.