"Nine-Nosed" is a collection of texts by Viktor Shenderovich, written in different (very different) years and which became an artistic interpretation of several eras in the life of Russia. For forty years - from early Andropov to late Putin - Shenderovich has been trying to answer the question of why the country never emerged from slavery and at what point we stopped hearing the alarm signals. "I turned out to be a so-so Pimen," the author admits, "but I turned out to be a pretty good reagent. Much can be seen clearly through these texts, and from a distance it became even more visible." The collection includes several previously unpublished stories, aphorisms, poems and scripts. And who is "Nine-Nosed"? Shenderovich himself, of course, who else?
