Действие романа «Свидание с Нефертити» происходит в период между началом Великой отечественной войны и смертью Сталина. Главный герой – Федор Матёрин, открывший в себе с помощью школьного учителя талант к живописи, пытается с помощью искусства найти ответ на извечный вопрос человечества – «Что есть истина?»
Владимир Тендряков Tendryakov as a writer was a foremost ethicist, and most of his works revolve around the problems of moral choice. He was born at Makarovskaya near Vologda in 1923. His father was a judge and prosecutor; after WW2 he became a school teacher. In 1946 Tendryakov enrolled into the State Institute of Cinematography, but later transferred to Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and started writing in the late 1940s. He graduated with a degree in literature in 1951 and became a professional writer in 1955, during the first wave of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization. His novel Assassinating Mirages (Pokushenie na mirazhi) (written 1979-1982), which was critical of the Soviet state, remained unpublished until 1987, when censorship was eased during Perestroika.
Really an amazing book, written from the point of view of the artist, it is full of color and has an amazing rhythm in conjunction with Александр Клюквин narration gives a listener a great view into the era 1941-1953 and the true artist place in it. I draw a lot of parallels with Irving Stone's "Lust for Life" in this book. What a great find. Attached is the link to an excellent Russian review of this book http://bookmix.ru/review.phtml?rid=31012
Очень проникновенно... Заставляет болеть, думать, переживать. Давно так не пробирало прочитанное. Обязательно прочту ещё раз через пару лет. ...и вечен поиск цели и смысла бытия...