The heroes of this book are the “superfluous people” of modern life. What do they think about? What do they experience? Probably what the classic characters of Russian literature experienced: the incompleteness of being, tragic disbelief, the impossibility of finding oneself, a longing for love and cleansing. The piercing state of mind of these “superfluous people” is unlikely to find an outlet in modern reality.
In `The Last Newspaper`, the grown-up hero—who has become a writer—solves for himself the problem of freedom versus lack of freedom once again. A witty novel-pamphlet describes the everyday life of a “new Russian” print publication, where an exhausted writer decided to sell his pen…