“Wandering Through Camps and Monasteries” by writer and artist Pavel Peppershtein is a novel whose characters, in the scenery of a detective story, travel through places and communities—both completely real and seemingly sealed within the cocoon of their own reality. Here the protagonists split, and, turning the page, you can land in a separate, phantasmagoric storyline and be carried along by a living stream of words, synonym cars, language play, ironic parodies, unexpected digressions, and mosaics of literary and cultural references. And even the novel opens suddenly—in a very Harms-like spirit—with a fight against an old woman.