Untraced / Unmarked traces

“In an attempt to defeat,“ from everywhere, the overhanging gloom ”Boris Tintsev invented his own way. It is not to increase the illusion without the need. To discover vulgarity and falsehood where they are, sometimes in the core of what is expensive for us. The procedure is very painful. But the pain is sometimes the only way to gain a reality inaccessible to total lies ”(L. Shitenburg).

Boris Tintintsev (1943−2014) - art critic and poet, Leningrad recluse, black romantic of the era of stagnation. The collection includes the previously not published essays of Tulintsev about the theater, music, poetry and cinema, poetry, fragments and sketches of unfulfilled works. Based on diary entries and letters from the Tulintsev archive, this book is an intimate story about the life of a misanthrope, a difficult person, an ordinary Soviet intellectual