Dwarf Pit
9.99 €
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Dwarf Pit
9.99 €
Connoisseurs have long known Mikhail Kvadratov, one of the most unique poets of contemporary Russia. Many thought that his poems, in which wonderful creatures perform wonderful deeds, were separated by an insurmountable moat from the reality that surrounds us. Having written his first novel, Kvadratov personally filled this moat, supplying his poetic archipelago with a clear coordinate grid. This is a deceptive, protean novel, turning into a treatise, a guidebook, a catalog, a cosmogonic tale. "The Gnome Pit" is both the dwelling of gnomes, gnomes, gnomiuses - agents of the earth element, and Moscow of the nineties, where Russian boys and Russian uncles, having found themselves on the ruins of their former life, wandered like Brownians, scurried back and forth like businesslike sleepwalkers, loaded, carried, counted and rewrote goods that accidentally attached themselves to them. The portrait of this era performed by Kvadratov is simultaneously recognizable and unusual, which makes it especially convincing. The stubborn search for meaning in this exemplary meaningless existence leads the author and his hero into the world of alchemical elementals and Finno-Ugric gods, sends the reader in the footsteps of the sorcerers of the Peter the Great era and the Chekist mystics. But the main site on which the action of the book takes place is cramped, clearly defined and meticulously written. These are Krasnye Vorota, Basmannye Streets, Bauman Garden, Yauza, German Quarter. On this site, the author creates a new, fascinating Moscow myth, telling about a life that is stuck in the ground and at the same time flutters on the wings of a Butterfly.
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