Altist Danilov

Altist Danilov is the cult novel by Vladimir Orlov, written at the end of the Soviet era. For the first time published in 1980 in the magazine New World, he struck readers by the hero and unusual plan - to show the demonic in man and human in the demon. Altist Danilov is a demon on the contract and a talented musician who lives in Moscow of the developed socialism. A demon that has become too similar to a person. In the novel by Vladimir Orlov there is a place for lyrics, and phantasmagoria, and social satire. This is a romance of love and hatred, about the “devilish” origin of the creative gift and reckoning, inevitably threatening his owner, in a word, the peak of “mystical realism” in modern Russian literature