Pavel Selukov was born in 1986 on the outskirts of Perm. He writes prose and scripts.
“How I Was Anna” is an audiobook of stories that could be called absurd, fantastic, satirical—or even branded with the mysterious word “parable.” The “street-kid and marginal” theme doesn’t become the main one here. Selukov’s characters grew up, found their own Tarkovskys—and then suddenly discovered that it wasn’t the end of the journey, but only its beginning.
“I asked him—rabbi, why can’t you speak, teach, preach, but only show and reveal?” And he answered: “Because the one who speaks doesn’t know, and the one who knows doesn’t speak.” I asked him—rabbi, how can I finish this story? And he said: “Nothing can be finished. There’s no death.”