Погибонцы

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, a writer, translator, singer, archivist of vintage music and cinema, author and host of the cult radio performances "Transylvania Disturbs" and "School of Cadavers". No one has yet built connecting threads between music, cinema and literature with such grace as Osipov manages to do: discrete fragments of different genres in his presentation invariably form an integral surface, and the dynamics of the author’s thought, playing a complex intellectual game with the cultural heritage of the 20th century, creates almost detective intrigue. It is almost impossible to imagine Osipov outside of this context: sometimes it seems that people and their actions do not interest him as much as a melody or a passage from a movie that randomly turned out to be woven into the canvas of events. "The Pogibontsy" is the third book of Osipov's artistic prose, it combines a collection of short stories of the same name and a cycle of short stories...