Solo on Wittgenstein

“Solo on Wittgenstein” is an author’s collection that includes six stories, a story and a selection of humorous miniatures. Behind a ridiculous form, they hide deep meanings in themselves, turn out to be multi -layer and multifaceted kaleidoscope, in which an intellectual reader can see a great many diverse interpretations (a hint or key to such interpretations are epigraphs of each of the stories).
“Solo on Wittgenstein” is an allusion to the famous Dovlatovsky “Solo on Underwood” and “Solo on IBM”. What does the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein have to do with it? The answer is given in the epigraph to the work, where the hero of the film Derek Jarmen regrets that he does not have a sufficient sense of humor in order to realize his most cherished dream - to compose philosophical work, which would be entirely from jokes. It seems that Ivan Khlyupov, unlike Ludwig Wittgenstein, still managed to do this