Dmitry Bykov is a poet, prose writer, and well-known publicist who believes that with the 20th century, the millennium of meaning and discussions about the “cursed questions” ends too—and that all the achievements, confrontations, and catastrophes of the preceding centuries are now just history, more dead than alive. Yet, humanity nevertheless does not get tired of arguing and speaking about Paul and Peter, about the Decembrists, the “catastrophe of 1917,” Dostoevsky and “Dostoevsky-ishness,” about Stalin and liberalism, Law and Grace… All of this is the past from which you can’t get away.
In the new audiobook “The Calendar,” Bykov chooses a “Danish form” to remember events and names that remain with us forever.