Next

Filip Dmitrievsky — the heir to the "aristocratic" ambitions of an intellectual family, whose life is planned out in advance. Intelligent, but emotionally unstable, he fails to meet the expectations of his loved ones and has suffered from a lack of love and acceptance since childhood. Larisa Korablyova — the embodiment of everything Fil will never be. She has always been — unbearably close and unreachably far. His admiration for her turns into painful love, observation into obsession, and Fil's inner world becomes a labyrinth where imaginary interlocutors wander with him: from Dante and Casanova to Dr. Eggman from a computer game. "Next" — a refined intellectual novel about destructive first love, stalking, and the price of freedom. Boris Peygin creates a rare psychological portrait of the hero with precision: the reader experiences the torturous path to maturity with him, feeling every fluctuation of his emotions.