“PONTOGRAPH” is about Maxim Privezentsov’s new picaresque novel.
The story starts, quite symbolically, with a strange walk by the Patriarch Ponds. Characters: Maks (parked near Bulgakov’s house because of an entry ban into the district), Gleb—a young man, the son of an influential official—and Bogdan Popoff, an extra-sensory person who doesn’t carry handkerchiefs.
Gleb asks Maks to ride with Bogdan around places where famous writers lived in Europe. The point is that Gleb is a future great writer. He doesn’t have a single manuscript yet—but he already has a pseudonym: “Gleb the Simple,” the result of the work of selected image-makers. And he has sacred knowledge of how to become that writer.