From the authors . We have been working on this collection of essays for more than six months. This is a long time, but it is also a very short, short .. Large to view the Internet versions of the works of Yuz Aleshkovsky, choose those in which there are fewer errors, a typo. To put in order sprawling when converting lines. Large for work, in fact, cosmetic. And we did that job .. Although some small "blobs" are not excluded in some places. And a short time to make a real, academic collection of essays . With articles, footnotes, comments, photos, sketches and versions of works. This is the work of scientists, literary scholars professionals, which, of course, will someday be done. We are the lovers of DT. We have an amateur experience of publishing digital books. So the armed eye, of course, they will be noticeable .. But we are also great fans of the creativity of Yuz Aleshkovsky .. And to all the works that you will find in these volumes, we treated with maximum care . On the Internet, among our friends, friends, we found rare, never published before, songs by Aleshkovsky. The legendary Nikolai Nikolaevich will soon appear in this collection of works in a new, improved edition. While published another one, from the distant 70s, when his novel Aleshkovsky wrote with a pen on thick paper. (And the manuscript of which, in order to avoid trouble with the competent authorities, he himself later destroyed). There are works, of course not many, which were published in various periodicals, but not included in the well-known "paper" five volumes. The sixth volume contains some rare images. This six-volume book is the selected works of the writer Yuz Aleshkovsky .. The selection is absolutely subjective, and is made solely on the basis of our personal preferences: t. 1 Nikolay Nikolaevich, Kangaroo, Masking, Hand . 2 "Blue modest handkerchief", "Book of last words", "Death in Moscow" . 3 "Flea Tango", "Confessions of an Unhappy Sexot", "Family Story", "Songs" . 4 "Carousel", "Three, seven, ace ...", "Marshal of a broken dog" . 5 “Morguns makeup artist from the morgue”, “American concept”, “Light at the end of the barrel”, “Dedicated to Guy de Maupassant”, “Zhepepenaka” The Last Life . Notes of a lucky man", "Little prison novel", "Hat", "Like a fleeting glare", "Echo of a cat's Meow", "Streams of a goose feather found in a foreign land", "Readings on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Yuz Aleshkovsky "Yuz!"April, 2014.