Galina Yuzefovich. (№ 419291)

I don't really like to divide books by grade - apparently, the childhood trauma from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, in which all writers were firmly divided into four types: "great", "outstanding", "prominent" and "famous", has an effect. Therefore, I avoid definitions like "great novel", "outstanding writer" and everything like that as much as possible. The main criterion for evaluating a book for me is its ability to change its reader: a good book is one from which you came out differently than you entered. Who did something to you, turned her eyes at a different angle, made you think about things that I had not thought about before. No matter how perfect the text, which did not leave a noticeable ripple in my soul, in my understanding, can hardly be considered good, and even more so great.