In the waning years of the Empire, a poet traverses Russia, from the Baltics to the capital, to the shores of the Black Sea. Along the way, he discusses man's place in the scheme of things with, among others, a very sober scientist and a very drunken landscape painter. He is harassed by the authorit[...]

Andrej Bitov priznaetsja, chto nikogda ne pisal roman-ekho "Prepodavatel simmetrii", a prosto perevel tekst davno uterjannoj inostrannoj knigi. Istorija zhizni pisatelja Urbino Vanoski, zapisannaja rasskazchikom, otryvki i sjuzhety ego proizvedenij. Knigu mozhno chitat s kakogo ugodno mesta, kak ras[...]