Pir [Feast]

The main theme of this collection of thirteen stories was food, food in in every sense and in every manifestation. In the era of postmodernism and mass consumption, both classical culture, and the language of Soviet propaganda, and the bright aspirations of the Russian intelligentsia of the early 20th century, and Japanese ideas about beauty, and the person himself, and even emptiness, which, it turns out, can be absorbed with spoons, become food. All this can be eaten and digested. Some of these stories are shocking, some make you think seriously, some make you laugh homerically, some are striking in their relevance and resonate so much with what is happening in Russia and in the world, as if they were written just yesterday.