About the book: 2001 / The novel by the famous Russian writer A. Gladilin “The brute Pell killed me” about the Russian emigration of the third wave. This is a bitter, truthful, sometimes scandalous, autobiographical narrative on behalf of a man who emigrated from the totalitarian USSR to the free world. However, a prosperous life in Paris turned out to be only an illusion for Russian writers. Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Galich, Vasily Aksenov live on the pages of this book under their own names, the prototypes of many encrypted heroes are easily guessed. Is it possible to “scroll back life, travel to another era and combine ten destinies in one”?... Let's try. “So who do I mean? Alas, for the current reader this is no secret, but let the descendants guess and suffer..."A. Gladilin