Vadim Kozhevnikov

[Alexander V Prokhorov]

Greetings all!

I am not an expert in this area but I have read the novel about 20yrs ago
and saw the film based on this novel.
The film used to be an important part of the stagnation
popular culture.  This film as well as the movies based on Iulian
Semenov's novels became the key texts in the spy-film branch of Soviet
culture industry.

Alexander Prokhorov


> On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, George Fowler wrote:
>
> > Greetings, all!
> >      Can anybody authoritative tell me in just a few words if Vadim
> > Kozhevnikov's large novel Shchit i mech has any literary merit?
> > Entertainment value? Historical importance?
> >      Thanks!
> >      George Fowler
> >
>
> I cannot be authoritative but I read this novel 20-30 years ago.  I
> cannot remember if it has any literary merits (at least exceeding its
> size) but it was entertaining and somewhat educational.  I remember from
> this novel that when one of the Russian spies was swimming using crawl
> stroke, he was warned by the main hero of the novel that it was not
> customary in Germany, so he had to change to breast stroke.  Maybe,
> there are some other interesting details, like the reason for the
> Germans' failure to forge Soviet documents.  Yes, it is funny.
> Historical importance? I doubt it. Unless we have to take into account
> how it influenced some other spy novels in the USSR.
>
> Edward Dumanis
> <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

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