page_title: Larisa Matros
section_title: Literary activity
hierarchical_section_title: Larisa Matros / Literary activity
caption_attribution_description: English: Book presentation of Larisa Matros
context_page_description: Larisa Grigorievna Matros is a philosopher and writer of fiction.
context_section_description: In 1992 Larisa Matros moved to the United States and turned to literary activity. Since the first years of this period of her life she became engaged in cultural and literary life of both the United States and Russia. 
  The main publications at this part of Matros’ creative career are two large sociological novels Presumption of Guilt (published in 2000) and It Is Called Life (published in 2007).
  In the first novel Matros applies her former scientific experience and knowledge to fiction, in which "alongside fictional characters act real people," well-known persons: politicians, academicians, public figures. It is a novel about the history of Soviet sociology, fate of Russian intelligentsia, humanities scientists, their input into social processes, their hopes, illusions, and disappointments in Khrushchev’s reforms and Gorbachev’s perestroika. In historical and fictional plots the author addresses the "main theme of the novel [which is] the responsibility of [scientific] intelligentsia for society and the responsibility of society for intelligentsia."
  One of the main subjects that made this book special is the historical and sociological analysis of the phenomenon of the world-famous science center in Siberia – Akademgorodok where the author spent 27 years.>
  She was a winner of the Contest "Russia-France" in 2015 carried out by the Moscow city organization of the Union of Writers of Russia
caption: Larisa Matros presents the second part of her dilogy novel It Is Called Life at the House of Scientists in Akademgorodok in June 2007
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