Komnata Vaginova

"Vaginova's Room" combines a mystical thriller and black comedy, its action takes place in a St. Petersburg communal apartment. The young philologist Senya decides to move into an apartment on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, the same one where... the writer Konstantin Vaginov lived, in order to write his biography. His neighbors turn out to be very strange characters: a half-mad lonely poet, a girl who writes a blog about her raccoon, an Italian alcoholic and an aloof lover of ancient philosophy. And behind the door of one of the rooms, someone is forcibly holding the girl. Will she be able to free herself?
Anton Sekisov's new book ("Blood and Soil", "God of Anxiety", "Recreation Areas") belongs to the "St. Petersburg text". Her characters inevitably experience the influence of the spirit of the place - a space where everything that happens is already predetermined, thoroughly permeated with absurdity, and the line between reality and hallucination is blurred. The text of "Vaginov's Room" is philological and filled with numerous allusions and references to the novels of Vaginov himself. But even a reader unfamiliar with his work will appreciate both the masterfully twisted plot, which keeps one in suspense until the very end, and the author’s characteristic manner, full of irony and satire.