Probably, the devil

Is it possible to extinguish the fires in your head by yourself? Sonya is twenty-one, she lives alone in a small room in a communal apartment in Moscow. Although she is introverted and unsociable, she treats herself with irony. Enrolling in a school of literary craftsmanship, she becomes close with a professor, and her life turns into a series of smeared, gloomy events. How to escape from traumatic relationships and find a way to oneself? This is a story of emotional dependency, anxieties, and self-destruction. What drives the heroine to erase her identity? Probably, the devil. "Probably, the devil" is the debut autobiographical novel by Sofia Astashova, a graduate of the CWS (Creative Writing School) and WLAG (Write Like a Girl) courses. "A physiological and therefore not very pleasant text about violence - an emotional trap that is easy to fall into when you are twenty and you think of love as something you need to earn, beg for, and suffer for. A text that lacks happiness and a way out, and therefore it feels stuffy - you want to break a window and ask the heroine to breathe as often as possible, and then grab your things and run. Read it and never fall into this abyss." - Ksenia Bourgeois, writer.