Denis Dragunsky is a writer, journalist, and the author of the books "Prose Factory," "Deceivers," "The Daughter of a Beloved Woman," "The Girl Next Door," and many others.
This book is the sequel to the bestseller "The True Life of Denis Korablev." That book ends with his enrollment in the Department of Classical Philology at the university. This one covers everything that happened afterward: legendary professors, fellow students, construction brigades and "potato harvests," Latin and Greek, libraries and Byzantine manuscripts, parties, and, of course, romances, crushes, and infidelities. An extremely (and often limitlessly) honest account of himself.
Even if I were friends with wizards, I no longer want to turn back time, as I sometimes dreamed of doing in my youth. I don't want Kira to bring my love back, or Comrade Protopopov to return my recommendation for graduate school. Because then I would have ended up with a completely different life. Not mine, but that of a twenty-three-year-old boy extended to the age of seventy-five. No, thank you.
The autobiographical novel is set in the long-forgotten 1960s and 1970s, which is why each section is accompanied by a glossary explaining terms like "avoska" (string bag), "agit-poster," "blat" (pull/connections), "zhuchok" (bugging device), "tolkach" (fixer), and so on and so forth.
Pages: 512 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 220x150 mm
