The Book of Vl. Novikov is a masterfully written, unvarnished story about the life and work of Vladimir Vysotsky, our contemporary, a man whose voice sounded literally in every house in the 1970s and 1980s. From the biography, the reader learns new details about the life of this hesitant soul, its ups and downs, passions and ailments. Author (famous literary critic, critic, prose writer, author of a monograph on literary parody, experimental "Dictionary of Fashionable Words," prose books "Romance with a Language," "Love!" And others; in the series "The Life of Wonderful People" his book "Alexander Blok" was published) is not limited to the purely biographical framework of the narrative, thoughtfully analyzing the work of Vysotsky the poet and striving to determine his place in the cultural and historical context of the era. This edition has been updated with new facts and materials.