Pain

6 hrs. 24 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Evgeny Grishkovets

Narrator Timur Sultanov

Description

The book “Pain” consists of three separate works: the novella “Uncaught” and two short stories. Or, to be precise, two novellas. These three separate works have no direct connection to one another. Yet I feel “Pain” as a single whole—as an artistic cycle in which Pain, both a state of the soul and a physical condition, becomes a kind of prism through which a person looks at the world, at life in a special way—like they had never looked before.

Pain as a way of perceiving the world is neither terrible nor scary—simply, as one of the ways to perceive the world.

I worked on this collection for a long time. The reader hasn’t seen my new prose in a long while. “Pain” is the result of painstaking work and, definitely, a step in the artistic direction I have not yet taken.