“Among those people who really understand what satire and humor are, here in Russia is Saltykov-Shchedrin, in the Soviet Union there was, of course, Zoshchenko, but our contemporary, unfortunately, was already Misha Zhvanetsky.
And this row is a row of people, they give their views on what is happening to us.
There is an official look, there is a look that calls us to take official actions, and there is a look that tells about who we are inside.
And inside we are just the ones that Misha wrote about, probably in the best way in the last 40 years, ”said Erofeev.
He added that he remembers Zhvanetsky's "amazing modesty", which, according to Erofeev, "did not betray him to the end."
“He was a legend, but a humble legend.
This person, who has accumulated talents from God, on the other hand, this person who had the observation of an ant, who simply sees what is happening on Earth.
Misha had the ability, without offending a person, to talk about what needs to be corrected in a person, or at least to show in order for him to think about who he is.
I tried to formulate what culture is, I think that culture is a fight against entropy, that is, a fight against what has rotted, what is destroyed ... So he was a real fighter against entropy, he showed where this destruction could come from and tried to to cope with this destruction with humor, ”the writer explained.
According to him, Zhvanetsky succeeded, and this, as noted by Erofeev, is the highest award for a person who writes.
“It will, of course, remain in the history of Russian literature, in our memory, it will remain as a person who, with his modesty, simply, one might say,“ outdid ”everyone, but did the same with his talent, also“ outdid ”,” the interlocutor concluded RT ...
Actor and TV presenter Alexander Oleshko also commented on the message about the death of the writer and called Zhvanetsky a man of immense talent and incredible intelligence.
Zhvanetsky died at the age of 87.