Marble swan. Skulskaya E.

In the "Marble Swan" three lines are bizarrely intertwined. The first is a post-war childhood, painful relations in the family, youth associated with the caricature-folk tartu philology department, where Yu. M. Lotman runs, a story about friendship with Dovlatov and others. The second line is surrealist novels born from real events. And the third is a special view of those great works of literature that most affected the author. All together - a portrait of the era and at the same time - a portrait of a writer, whose life is inevitably built according to the laws of his work. Roman is the finalist of the Russian Boker, the winner of the Zvezda magazine prize and the Estonian Culture Culture Awards for 2014.