The Dreamer

Valery Popov is a prose writer and memoirist, author of books “Life Turned Out Well,” “Ink Angel,” “The Mosquito Lives While It Sings,” “To Dance Until Death,” “Dovlatov” (in the “ZhZL” series); a representative of the Petersburg sixties generation; he was acquainted with Andrei Bitov, Sergei Dovlatov, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Golyavkin, and Vladimir Ufliand. In Popov’s books there is always grotesque and fantasy; his texts are called “bright, absolutely personal, unique in their material texture.”