Two Cockroaches. Essays and Criticism

"A Book about Books" - this is how one can define the content of Alexander Vergelis's collection "Two Cockroaches". This edition includes essays, articles, and reviews written at various times and published in both traditional "thick" magazines and online publications in Russia and abroad. The author focuses on 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 contemporary poetry, predominantly from St. Petersburg, represented by the names of Alexander Kushner, Alexey Mashevsky, Alexey Purin, Vasily Kovalev, Alexander Leontiev, Vladimir Bauer, Sergey Semenov, and others.