Altist Danilov. Orlov V.V.

“Altist Danilov” is the cult novel by Vladimir Orlov, which opens the cycle of his mystical works “Ostankino Stories.”

The book tells of the fate of a talented artist, part -time a demon, exiled from the world of dark spirits. The hero tries to return to his native monastery, simultaneously mastering musical art and gaining more and more human features.

Balancing on the verge of real and irreal, phantasmagoria, lyrics and social satire, the author creates a kind of parable about the devilish origin of the creative gift and reckoning inevitably threatening its owner, and a book that has become one of the peaks of magical realism in modern Russian literature.