Abstract
It is generally held that all five of the novels by Trifonov that I shall discuss are about ordinary life. Ordinary life is precisely what attracts some to these novels and disturbs and upsets others. Ordinary life — as the prevailing view has it — marks these novels and is their essence. In the final analysis, it has turned out that the author himself seems to have come to believe this interpretation. He even defends it — energetically and with a challenge: Again, they say, the author marks time: ordinary life, ordinary life, a bottle, 200 grams. But the author finally wants to say a word in defense of ordinary life. Ordinary life is a great ordeal. It is not something to be spoken of with contempt, as of a base aspect of human life not worthy of a literature. For ordinary life is normal life, trial by life, in which the new, contemporary morality emerges and is tested.
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