Saint Petersburg

Petersburg takes about the same place in the Russian-speaking prose that the "Ulysses" Joyce - in the English-speaking and "process" of kafki - in German-speaking.
Demonstratively classic form hides in itself a striking content of content: Gogol motifs are mixed with references to Dostoevsky, and the irony and social satire are adjacent to mysticism. One and a half days from the life of the St. Petersburg dignitorn of Apollon Apollonovich Ablaukhova and his son Nicholas are becoming a strange, funny and fascinating phantasmagoria, where everything is shot down in a strong cocktail, which Petersburg began the beginning of the XX century, - esoterica and occultity of various sense, rallies, and political terrorism, balls, Masquerades and even Fashion for Satanism and Suicide