Love—devotion? Love—betrayal? Love—madness? Love—the best thing there is on Earth?
In his new novel “The Taste of Closeness,” Svyatoslav Tarakhovsky, with his characteristic irony, tests the heroes in farcical, sometimes frightening, even desperate situations to answer the question: what is modern love, what do the words, noble intentions, and strange deeds in it mean…
“The secret is that in every action, every movement, even every half-word, Don Juan is completely sincere. He truly believes what he tells the woman. And he behaves with her in such a way that even the most respectable lady simply—can’t— stay indifferent, she yields, falls, gets involved in sin, is horrified afterward by her own foolishness, tries to forget it, and only sometimes remembers it with a slight, condescending smile…"