Anna Narinskaya: "This book consists almost entirely of articles written since my emigration from Russia. The exception is the tests dedicated to my friend, the poet Grigory Dashevsky, a man who knew how to distinguish good from evil. In the time since his death in 2013, this rare quality has become even more important, and Grisha's absence even more gaping. For the most part, these are journalistic texts that try to somehow reassemble the shards that my and many of my friends’ (sometimes I dare to speak not only for myself) picture of life after February 2022 has turned into. They were written on different occasions and for different publications, but some themes and even some examples and quotes illustrating them are repeated from text to text. "When collecting texts, I almost always kept these repetitions. It seems to me that this obsession itself is a symptom of post-catastrophic existence and thinking, and perhaps in itself represents an account of what is happening."
