Written Off

Dmitry Bykov is a prose writer, poet, publicist, and radio and television journalist. The author of many novels and original literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice a laureate of the “Big Book” prize. His lectures from the cycle “Direct Speech” are extremely popular.

The life of Moscow screenwriter Sviridov no longer belongs to him: ever since he ended up on a mysterious list whose purpose is known only to special services, every his step is monitored. Is this a social experiment or a new reality in which you have to learn how to live? And how to deal with the sticky fear that from now on seeps into everyday life entirely? Everything about law-abiding citizens in extreme situations— in Dmitry Bykov’s novel “Reassigned.”