Description of a City

5 hrs. 42 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Dmitry Danilov

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

Danilov’s “phenomenological prose,” written like a portrait of a certain modern Russian regional town: the plot builds the author’s process of experiencing the town’s face and physiology, its lifestyle, and its very spirit. Accordingly, by the rules of the genre invented by Danilov, the subject here is not only the object of observation and study (the town), but also the subject itself (the author). The narrator’s constant presence in the frame gives his narration—along with everything else—the character of confessional prose. The novel’s thought is formed from within, through the author’s reflection on the process of establishing his own (as an artist) connections with the realities of today’s Russia.