Pushkin House

Andrei Bitova was called the “Pushkin house” of the postmodernism, the first Russian philological novel, the novel-museum, the epoch-making work ... Written in 1964 as the first anti-teacher in literature, he “walked in lists” for a long time and was first published in the USA in 1978 . Immediately became the cult book of the generation, translated into many languages ​​of the world.
The main character of the novel, Leo Odoevtsev, a hereditary philologist, the heir to a glorious surname, thinks himself and others through the prism of Russian classics. But times and morals have changed a lot, and how to live in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, no one explained to Leva, and meanwhile family, friends, women require actions and decisions ...
“both Russian literature, and Petersburg (Leningrad) , and Russia - all this is one way or another Pushkin’s house without his curly guest ”(Andrei Bitov)