Radin

«The heroes of Lena Eltang are always somewhat homeless. Their habitat, the feeling of home is replaced by world culture. It can be said that they embody with paradoxical literalness the Mandelstam formula that Hellenism is a potter's oven». Thus,... critic Igor Gulin commented on one of the author's texts.
Eltang's new book continues the tradition: it is not only a classic novel about a Russian writer caught in a dangerous story on foreign soil, and not only a detective drama with crime and punishment. Above all, it is the travel notes of an escapist, a lost European, a sane person but full of recklessness; it is the diary of a romantic, immersing us in the consciousness of a hero living simultaneously in two dimensions: in the subjectively perceived social reality and in the space of personal myth.