hold back my tears, despite the unrealistic nature of the narrative, that is, samsonov, standing on caturnylutely like an ancient greek chorus in an ancient greek tragedy, managed to penetrate precisely into the tragic plane, creating a truly great large-scale work, it is very different from prose of lieutenants xx century, a very, very, very emphasized conventionality of the events taking place, although metaphorical, yes, yes, yes... there are also practical details and a lot of passion , it is clear that he studied the material, it is clear that, by the way, we need to talk about this today, because that this is one of the important differences between modern prose, the fact is that participants in the war, and bonderev, and boris vasilev and so on, they do not dwell in such detail on technical details, contemporaries, and seryozha, and ilya boyeshov, and other authors, often are addicted to wikipedia, i i understand, access to... two writers, in general, i think, independently of each other, come to this idea of depicting the war as a confrontation, well, you can say two people, but