The author once said that this book belongs to the kind that has "Put it back where you found it" written on it — that is, it reads like a diary. In reality, "The Ninth Volume" is simply a collection of articles — the question being what they are about…
Contents
My Theatrical Novel
My Theatrical Novel
Oh, Theatre!
Brother Alyosha
Hamlet
An Attempt at an Answer
Theatrical Dreams
Dear Comrades!
A Brief History of "Three Girls"
Who Needs an Ordinary Person?
Moscow Neorealism
From the History of "Wedding Night"
Theatre of the End of Our Century
Tatyana Ivanovna
Three Sisters or So…
A Memory
Beyond Grief
He Has Gone
The Name of the Book
The Name of the Book
The Dying Swan
Sanych
A Pitchfork in the Side
Vasya-Ira, or How I Was Fired
A Response to a Question About "Novy Mir"
Sex for Us?
Handsome Vasya and His Circle
A Letter to Norshtein and the Reader
From the Lives of Butterflies
Flower Children
Our Year 1991
Script Notes for the Animated Film "The Overcoat"
Shock Pediatrics
Grass Street. Fulfilled
Asya from "Novy Mir"
Kind People
A Response to a Questionnaire from the Journal "Nagyvilág"
Boy Mike from the Petrograd Side
Ekaterina Grigoryeva
Testimony of a Witness
A Monument to Pushkin
Answers to Questions for a Dissertation
Ten Years Later
A Lecture on Genres