This book by renowned St. Petersburg writer and literary theorist Mikhail Berg brings together for the first time works from the last three years and novels that became famous in samizdat publications in the first half of the 1980s and are now included in university anthologies as classics of Russian postmodernism. Each novel is an artistic exploration of cultural and historical mythologies present in contemporary consciousness.
The novel "Unlucky Duel" is a nominee for the Andrei Bely and Booker literary prizes.