Maya Turovskaya Shards

The legendary cultural critic author of books about M Babanova B Brecht A Tarkovsky Maya Turovskaya tells us a novel Childhood in people my universities She tells it like a writer Only her novel is not written but shot on camera and supplemented with photos and newsreel footage In other words its a movie monologue about time About a communal apartment in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in Moscow About my parents and my fathers arrest About kindergarten and school About friends and girlfriends About teachers About the beginning of the war and the evacuation to Sverdlovsk About her husband critic Boris Medvedev who met the war on the border and ended it in Stalingrad About parallel studies at Moscow State University and at GITIS About the fight against rootless cosmopolitans