About the book: 1986 / This volume includes the journalistic works of Yuri Bondarev from different years, covering a quarter of a century. These are articles, speeches, conversations, interviews about the ways of development of Soviet literature, about the problems of modern prose, creative portraits of writers of different eras and generations: L. N. Tolstoy, F. M. Dostoevsky, A. P. Chekhov, L. M. Leonov , M.A. Sholokhov, K.G. Paustovsky, V.V. Bykov, V.P. Astafiev and a number of others. The author devotes many bright pages to the issues of unity of all people of good will against the terrible threat of nuclear war, the safety of the Earth itself and its natural resources necessary for human existence.