A wealthy widow, an enthusiastic patron of the arts, invites a company from New Orleans to enjoy time on the water discussing art. On board the yacht "Nausicaa" gathers a famous writer prone to pranks, a cynical and sad critic, a reclusive sculptor, an exalted artist, a refined and hopelessly single connoisseur of beauty, an emancipated girl, her skilled brother, a bootlegger, his muse, and several other people, successfully complementing this lazily wandering panopticon. The entertaining outing almost immediately spirals out of control: the men indulge in whiskey, innocent flirtation escalates into unrequited passion, some guests disappear in broad daylight, others run the yacht aground, while the rest, out of boredom, turn lofty leisure into a full-blown farce. It seems only the local mosquitoes, residents of the coastal swamps, are satisfied, feasting on the fresh blood of the New Orleans bohemia...
The future Nobel Prize laureate in literature, the great American writer William Faulkner spent many tumultuous months in New Orleans in his youth, and their fruit became "Mosquitoes" - a modernist experiment, inspired by T. S. Eliot, Huxley, and possibly Joyce, a satirical "novel with a key" that successfully offended many.
Strangely enough, for the first time in Russian!
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