A collection of ironic short prose by the philologist Andrey Astvatsaturov: about the dacha in Komarovo and first love, about his grandfather Viktor Zhirmunsky and the postmodernist philosopher Alexander Pogrebnyak, about autumn and other seasons in St. Petersburg.
The genre of “novel in stories” is placed on the flyleaf. The author jokes, sadly, lyrically, about the world, people and, of course, himself, and urban jokes about the “ordinary spectacled intellectual”, restless, lost and funny, ultimately create a solid and very familiar image. Read if you recognize yourself in the description or if you are interested in how St. Petersburg university teachers live and whether they are so far from the people.
Edited by Elena Shubina, 287 p., 2015.