Stingy

"The heroes of Lena Eltang are always a little homeless. Their place of residence is replaced by a sense of homeliness with world culture. It can be said that they paradoxically embody the Mandelstam formula that Hellenism is a stove pot. This is how critic Igor Gulin commented on one of the author's texts. Eltang's new book continues the tradition: it is not only a classic novel about a Russian writer who finds himself in a dangerous history in a foreign land, and not just a detective drama with crime and punishment. Above all, it is the travel notes of an escapist, a lost European, a sensible but reckless person. It is a diary of a romantic, immersing us in the space of the hero's consciousness, living simultaneously in two dimensions: in the subjectively perceived social reality and in the space of personal myth."