The Round-Dance of Water
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From the man Arturo Pérez-Reverte has called ?the most talented young Russian author? comes this extraordinary family saga, a journey into the depths of the human soul.
The Round-dance of Water is a detailed portrait of three generations of a large family, but in this story there is no division into primary and secondary characters: each individual fate carries its weight and runs into the bloody river of the twentieth century. The novel drifts between years, tones, and styles, and the range of its influences is overwhelming, ranging from Rudyard Kipling to Andrei Platonov and Daniil Kharms, from gangster movies to Japanese anime.
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Sergey Kuznetsov was born in Moscow in 1966. In the late 1990s he became a leading Russian film and pop-culture critic, and rose to prominence as one of the pioneers of the Internet in Russia. He has actively contributed to magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Playboy, Vogue, and L'Officiel. In 2001 he became the first Russian journalist to be awarded the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Prologue Like a Fish
- 1. Always Like This
- 2. Mine Will Do Without It
- 3. IT Doesn't Get in the Way When You Kiss?
- 4. Parting Words
- 5. Alternative Wake
- Part One. Two Brothers
- 6. Regular Riffraff Out of the Outskirts of Moscow
- 7. Catch-75
- 8. There Won't Be a Thursday
- 9. Flimsy Refuge
- 10. Reincarnation. Nina
- 11. Wet Snow
- 12. Thank God our Youth is Over
- 13. Business is a Gunshot
- 14. 1984. The Boy Without a Foil
- 15. Right to Violence
- 16. Little Harpoon
- 17. Once, We Were Young
- 18. Children's Tales
- 19. Reincarnation. Maksim
- 20. You Deserve Better
- 21. Zombie Goes Home
- 22. Breakfast Later
- 23. It's Enough For Us
- 24. 1971. According to Long-Term Forecasts
- 25. A Frog in Chlorinated Water
- 26. The Fogged-Up Glass of the Toyota
- 27. How Can You Not Believe in Love?
- 28. 1975. Moscow Rainbow
- 29. A Singular Howl
- 30. A Black Skirt and a Bow On Her Neck
- 31. A Real Girl
- 32. Ninety Seconds
- 33. Not Aids and Not Cancer
- 34. 1974. The Quick Goodbye
- 35. The Whiskered Faces of Fish
- 36. Zoo-Alcohology
- 37. Yellowish-Red Leaves
- 38. Everyone Likes My Poetry
- 39. Afternoons: XXII Century.
- 40. The Water of an Insipid Death
- Part Two. Bang Bang (Atlantis)
- 41. 1913. The Continent Under Threat
- 42. Doesn't Need a Body At All
- 43. Reincarnation. Lyubochka
- 44. Tea, Naturally
- 45. 1982. A Non-War Secret.
- 46. Everything Under Control
- 47. As They Say in a John Woo Film
- 48. 1953. All Passion For Life
- 49. No Friends, No Enemies
- 50. Pure Happiness, What Can I Say
- 51. Autonomous Time Zones
- 52. Young and Beautiful
- 53. Reincarnation. Pavel
- 54. Boat, Flood, Old Man, Beasts
- 55. The Incident With Yevseyka
- 56. Family Album
- 57. 1942. In the Morning You Wake Up All Vigorous
- 58. I Worked There, I'd Know
- 59. Film Noir
- 60. Reincarnation. Alya Chernova
- 61. 1941. The Great Game
- 62. Nothing Wrong With Fantasies
- 63. That Same Old Resentment
- 64. Descent Underground
- 65. Around the Neighborhood
- 66. Reincarnation. Boris
- 67. The Friendships of Men and the Fates of Women
- 68. Two Russias
- 69. The Year 1936. The Tale of an Indubitable Wind
- 70. Basic Human Respect
- 71. Not Enough
- Part Three. Family Values
- 72. Reincarnation: Nikolay
- 73. Didn't Work Out
- 74. Beyond the Horizon
- 75. 1920. 7, Or Not About Love.
- 76. The Past Tense of the Verb
- 77. Essentially, Banal Words
- 78. Teambuilding
- 79. 1928. Influenza, Or Days and Nights On Vasilyevsky Island and Other Leningrad Neighborhoods
- 80. A Real Resort Romance
- 81. Genealogy is Fate
- 82. Like Incest
- 83. Reincarnation. Aleksey
- 84. Two-Thirds
- 85. The Last Stroke
- 86. Done Playing
- 87. 1951-1952. Little Brother
- 88. And the Armor Broke
- 89. In Three Generations
- 90. 2003. Forty-Two Years Ago
- 91. Powerful Stuff, We Know
- 92. In Anticipation of the Looming Currency Devaluation
- 93. Something Will End
- 94. I'm Afraid
- 95. 1919. A Treat
- 96. As If It Were Melded to It
- 97. A Brief But Passionate Romance
- 98. As Pluto, Not Orpheus
- 99. 1937. The Deserted House, Or Going Under
- 100. From Underneath the Dark Water
- 101. Exactly My Case
- 102. 1935. The Fate of a Metro Builder
- 103. The Sacrifice
- 104. Something Very Important
- Epilogue. Fishie
- 105. Thank You, Thank You!
- 106. 2005. The Great Game.
- 107. Happy Ending
- 108. Dark Water
