Keyword: «russian literature abroad»

The article presents the reviews of Yu.P. Annenkov contemporary critics on his insufficiently studied novel "Heaviness", which was created in the best period of his work. Outstanding critics of the Russian diaspora V. Khodasevich and G. Adamovich unanimously noted the bright talent of the writer, but at the same time, the artistic form of the novel, which turned out to be beyond the limits of classical aesthetics and traditional approaches to plot creation, was unclear to them.