Two Cockroaches. Essays and Criticism

"The Book about Books" - this defines the content of Alexander Vergelis's collection "Two Cockroaches". The current edition includes essays, articles, and reviews written at various times and published both in traditional "thick" magazines and online publications in Russia and... abroad. In the author's focus are Mikhail Bulgakov, Maxim Gorky, Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Artsybashev, Joseph Brodsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Bernhard Schlink, and many others - writers, directors, memoirists. A significant place in the collection is devoted to modern poetry, predominantly from St. Petersburg, represented by the names of Alexander Kushner, Alexey Mashevsky, Alexey Purin, Vasily Kovalev, Alexander Leontyev, Vladimir Bauer, Sergey Semenov, and others.