Self -portrait with oyster in pocket

The novel of the philologist Roman Shmarakov is an example of a subtle literary game, in which the reader offers several roles at once, in addition to the traditional one, in which you need to monitor the development of the plot and the beauty of style and language, these are the roles of an insightful detective (after all, all murder should be revealed), a connoisseur of a subtle English Humor (and who does not like Jevs and Wuster?), A lover of stories from the Decameron "Bokkaccio and the" suffering Middle Ages", the symbols of baroque painting and allegories. In the interweaving of the storylines and "weave, the Word of Word" guesses more than just a novel - a postmodern romance, multi -layer, where everyone can subtract their own and where there is a lot: "heroic deeds" of ancestors, clashes of myth -workers and mythosils, spiritualistic sessions and a bureau caused that world of spirits