Tolstois Bart und Tschechows Schuhe

"This foray into literature is an adventure full of surprises. Vladimir Kaminer's look behind the scenes lets the seven fascinating writers reveal a lot about life itself. Crazy ideas, great triumphs, tragic failure, wild passions and the great events of world history - all this and more can be found in this work about famous authors from Vladimir Kaminer's Russian homeland: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Nabokov and Daniil Charms."--Back cover.