The first book of the author

The first book of the writer Andrei Georgievich Bitov (1937-2018), who had been lying for forty years in the author’s portfolio for circumstances that are beyond him.
“Bitov undertook a writer"s gesture, permitted only to the classics: after the fifty books published by him for the literary life, he collected and released his“ first book ”. This means that he extracted from the basket and compiled the earliest things into the collection, showing the zero page of his work ... At the same time, he presented the beginning of his own textology and some materials for his own biography, thereby acting as his own researcher. It turned out something carefully designed and very exquisite, a new work of the author from very old things, something that the spectacular current concept of an artifact is suitable ”(S.G. Bocharov)