[2] His “Chronicle of the Times of Viktor Podgursky,” published in the magazine “Yunost” at the end of 1956, had a great resonance.

[3] The story is written in the genre of “confessional prose” and examines the theme of anxiety and inner loneliness of a living and sincere person in a world of regulated values.

But he unexpectedly received an invitation to Moskovskij Komsomolets to work as the head of the literature and art department[5].

In the sixties, Gladilin was considered a talented and promising young Soviet writer along with Vasily Aksyonov.

Among his published works in the West was a novel, FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic — a tale of a Communist coup in France.