Translated into Russian for the first time, the debut novel by English writer Ann Quinn (1936-1973) is a half-forgotten treasure of late modernist literature.

A man named Berg, who changed his name to Greb, set off for a seaside town with the intention of killing his father...

A tangled fever dream, where all boundaries between the hero's mind, his memories, the real city around him, and mirages are erased. Ann Quinn states her intentions directly and reveals the main plot in the very first lines, but Berg seems to ruin her plans, lost in his internal monologue.
Ann Quinn's debut is a near-espionage novel with a dizzying plot, replete with Freudian motifs, and a ventriloquist dummy fits awkwardly, inappropriately, and therefore all the more eerily into the love triangle between Berg, his father, and his father's mistress.

Quinn writes with ruthless honesty, dissecting Berg's skull and revealing its contents to the reader, without concealment or embellishment. In "Berg," one can see the confession of a madman obsessed with the past, the torment of unwavering loneliness, and the story of Oedipus, this time unfolding in a half-empty seaside town under the watchful gaze of taxidermy specimens—all within an endless mirror labyrinth from which Berg desperately tries to escape, but repeatedly encounters only walls.