The collection presents stories and a novella by Alexander Ilichevsky. In the author’s strange, excessive, fluid—like water—prose, he reflects the entire stylistic variety of Russian literature of the last century. Applied to the present day, this variety is melted down into a single layer of a “national myth.”
Contents
Throat of Ushuluk
“Smile”
Assault
“Diesel”
Ring, washbasin, pit
Bottle, a story about glass
Case of the Crimean Bridge
Limestone
Countable
Slow boy
Mullet
April the twelfth
Cloud
Smooth surface
Eid al-Adha
Sparrow
Bonfire
Old man