Petrovs in the flu and around it

Alexey Saldnikov was born in 1978 in Tartu. He has been published in the almanac "Babylon", and the magazines "Air", "Ural", "Volga". He is the author of three poetry collections. He is a laureate of the "LiteratuRReentgen" prize (2005), a... finalist of the "Big Book" and "NOS". He lives in Yekaterinburg.

"Saldnikov writes like, perhaps, no one else today, namely - fresh, like the first day of creation. At every step, he knocks the reader off their feet, shaking the vestibular apparatus trained by years of reading "normal" books.
All the random signs encountered by the flu-stricken Petrovs in their painful half-delirium come together in a coherent structure without a single unnecessary detail. From all the cracks, such cheerful chthonian and infernal horror begins to seep that Mamleev and Gorchev start to dance together, while Gogol and Bulgakov applaud.
A striking, unique language, grounded and tangible material world and a truly magical shimmering ambiguity (whether everything happening in the novel is the flu-induced hallucinations of the three Petrovs, or the wizardly backside of the world has indeed been briefly exposed) - no matter how you look at it, an outstanding text and a true reader's holiday".
Galina Yuzefovich