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"The era of Vasily Makarovich": the first reactions to the death of Shukshina

The literary community in these moments recovers from the shock associated with the death of the widow of the classic of Russian literature Vasily Shukshin

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"The era of Vasily Makarovich": the first reactions to the death of Shukshina

Critic and biographer of a number of Russian writers Mikhail Gundarin has just published a post where he stated that we are “moving further and further away from the era of Vasily Makarovich.” In three years, 100 years.

“She lived a good life, everything was, then she and life,” wrote Gundarin, who co-authored with the writer Yevgeny Popov canonical life descriptions of Shukshin.

Source: Московский комсомолец ↗

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