The Life of Denis Korablyov. Philology and Beyond: An Autobiographical Novel with Explanations

Denis Dragunsky — writer, journalist, author of the books "Factory of Prose", "Deceivers", "Daughter of the Beloved Woman", "The Neighbor Girl" and many others.

This book is a continuation of the bestseller "The Real Life of Denis Korablyov". There, the story ends with his admission to the University in the Department of Classical Philology. Here is everything that happened next: legendary professors, friends from university, construction brigades and "potatoes", Latin and Greek, libraries and Byzantine manuscripts, parties and, of course, romances, infatuations and betrayals. An extremely (and most often — infinitely) sincere story about oneself.

Even if I had been friends with wizards — I no longer want to go back, as I sometimes dreamed in my youth. I don't want Kira to return my love, nor for comrade Protopopov to provide me a reference for admission to graduate school. Because then I would have a completely different life. Not mine, but that of this twenty-three-year-old boy — extended to seventy-five. No, thanks.

The action of the autobiographical novel takes place in the distant 1960s-1970s, so each part is accompanied by a glossary with explanations of what an avoska, an agitational poster, a blatt, a bug, a tolchok — and so on and so forth — are.