Fifth Dimension. On the border of time and space. Bitov A. G.

Andrei Bitov’s requirements for essays are the same as for artistic prose (from “Silence of the Word” (1971) to “Muse of Prose” (2013)). “Fifth dimension” is the unity of texts written at different times at different times places and for various occasions (round dates or exit of a rare book, interviews or discussion), and often without apparent, external occasion. Events and persons, the author and reader are closed in a single space - memory, even when it comes to contemporaries. “Literature turned out to be more ancient than science,” says Andrei Bitov.