«A Novel Without Lies» — a book in which one of the main characters becomes Sergei Yesenin, Mariенгоf’s close friend and fellow campaigner, a person without whom it is impossible to imagine 20th-century Russian literature. This is not just a set of memoirs: before the reader is a story about real, living people and about the fate of an entire generation of poets and writers who worked during the years of dramatic changes for Russia. Here is an outspoken and sincere account of friendship and betrayal, of the milieu of artists and literary figures, and of love for one’s homeland…
The collection also includes the works «My Age, My Youth, My Friends and Girlfriends» and «Without a Fig Leaf».