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About the product Dmitry Bykov’s new novel is, as always, a bright experiment, a literary event. Three independent stories, three different genres. A tragicomedy in which a poet, a student of the famous IFLI falls. The drama of a Soviet journalist: love and betrayal, emigration and denunciation, arrest and betrayal. A grotesque, conspiracy tale about a mad scientist who discovered the mechanisms of world control with the help of language and text. At the center of all stories is the twentieth century, a premonition of war and the fate of people in their collision with the era. Quotes “You cannot be a good person in Russia, Borya realized this long ago, because all the collisions that Russia produced were crippled, eschewed collisions. That is why every moral choice has made you a scoundrel. If you resist, you wish evil for the millions who are happy. If you do not resist, you are a traitor to your own views. The word «traitor» generally became the most common. » “More than anything in the world, Krastyshevsky was afraid of war. No, more than anything else, as we remember, Krastyshevsky was afraid of a closed space. But war seemed to him the apotheosis of a confined space: a trench, earth is falling from all sides, you can’t go anywhere without permission, always run somewhere, you must die, and death is the most hopeless isolation. » “It was necessary to compose the rest as soon as possible, to grab as much as possible from the suddenly opened window, which was about to be tightened again, especially since the evening was beginning to thicken, and there was a strange feeling that something huge was ending <...> Maybe , the very miserable feeling of spring resurrection, equinox (oh yes — he remembered! — equinox) ended, and something much more formidable was approaching. » «No book has been as difficult for me as this, but no book has ever said so many terrible things about me.» — Dmitry Bykov.
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