Moscow Gambit

Yuri Mamleev is the ancestor and recognized master of the genre of metaphysical realism. His prose is an amazing alloy of grotesque and deep philosophical, shocking texts with elements of mysticism. His world is grotesque and fantastic, inhabited by strange and terrible people. “Life is a mockery of the sky above the ground,” the writer himself said.
“Moscow Gambit” is written in exile and tells of the real events of the 1960-1970s. This is a novel about the underground unofficial culture - the legendary Yuzhin circle and some other centers of Moscow literature and metaphysics of that time. The novel about time and about themselves, as well as about people who, contrary to official ideology, strove for prohibitive and endless