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Novai͡a kniga avtobiograficheskoĭ prozy Li͡udmily Ulit͡skoĭ - ėto lichnyĭ, gluboko intimnyĭ otchet o vstreche cheloveka s samim soboĭ. Vremi͡a, ogranichennoe nastoi͡ashchim, poskolʹku sam fakt budushchego podvergaetsi͡a somnenii͡u. Mir, szhavshiĭsi͡a do razmerov komnaty, gde perechityvai͡utsi͡a knigi, listai͡utsi͡a stranit͡sy dnevnika, perezhivai͡utsi͡a starye li͡ubovi i druzhby. Ėmot͡sionalʹnai͡a pami͡atʹ vkli͡uchaet v sebi͡a mnogoe, v tom chisle i chernye dyry na meste dorogikh li͡udeĭ, ushedshikh navsegda. I vsë ėto material, iz kotorogo sozdany rasskazy i memuarnye ocherki, sostavivshie ėtu knigu.'Svoe podlinnoe imi͡a cheloveku dano uznatʹ tolʹko posle smerti, kogda angel vkladyvaet emu v ruku belyĭ kamenʹ s ego nastoi͡ashchim imenem'. Li͡udmila Ulit͡skai͡a

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's new book of autobiographical prose is a personal, deeply intimate account of a person's encounter with himself. Time limited to the present, because the very fact of the future is in doubt. A world shrunk to the size of a room where books are re-read, diary pages are flipped, old loves and friendships are experienced. Emotional memory includes many things, including black holes in the place of dear people who have gone forever. And all this is the material from which the stories and memoir essays that made up this book were created.'A person is given to know his real name only after death, when an angel puts a white stone with his real name in his hand." Lyudmila Ulitskaya