Конец января в Карфагене

Georgy Osipov, also known as Count Khortytsya, is a man of strange and unexpected knowledge, a shadow bearer of the culture of a bygone era, writer, translator, singer, archivist of vintage music and cinema, host of the provocative radio programs "Transylvania Disturbs" and "School of Cadavers". "End of January in Carthage", the second fiction book by Garik Osipov, combines the story "My Gray Friend" (2011) and the collection of stories of the same name (1977-2011), continuing the storylines begun in the previous book "Goods for Rothschild". “Everything here is filled with music, it literally “oozes” from deserted courtyards and lanes, where the heroes of the story carry out the most complex combinations of exchanging and re-recording scarce albums of their favorite performers” (M. Viktorov). Count Khortitsa has neither friends nor admirers; an exemplary heretic does not need vain love and friendship. Osipov writes, "to talk less, and most importantly - drink less." In such a position, of course, there is a certain dandyism. The era described here...