There is no time. There is a bouquet of bells

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a person who knows how to work with chaos. She has been familiar with it since her hungry war-time childhood. Today, that girl who sang in the courtyards of Kuibyshev for bread is a famous writer, referred to as "great." And indeed, she is. The great Petrushevskaya is always the voice of the time. In her plays ("Music Lessons," "Three Girls in Blue," "Moscow Choir," "Chinzano"), in her prose ("Her Circle," "Time of Night"), in her screenplays (of course, "Tale of Tales"), and in her poetry, songs, and paintings...

But today Petrushevskaya says: "There is no time." This is the title of her book, which she has long wanted to compile from the texts of her internet diary, started back in 2016. It is a chronicle of how we have been living in recent years, a guide among chaos, absurdity, and frightening changes. Here, everything is named by its names, all is honest, funny, poignant, and fearless. Yes, as if there is no more time. There is no justice, no peace... many things are missing. But, says Petrushevskaya, there is a bouquet of bells. And our children, and freedom, of course.

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a prose writer, playwright, poet, screenwriter, author of watercolors and monotypes, artist, and director of eight of her own animated films ("Handmade Studio"), composer and singer, creator of the roaming theater "Cabaret of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya."