One Could Say So: A Mizanabim Novel

Anna Matveeva is the author of the novels "Every Hundred Years", "Dyatlov Pass, or the Secret of the Nine", "There's!" and "The Enviable Feeling of Vera Stenina", as well as many collections of stories and the books "City Dwellers" and "Painted Girls". "One Could Say So" is Anna Matveeva's new novel. "This is a novel about the nature of creativity and the fact that all books have long been written, but far from all of them have been read. It is also about Moscow and love. One could say so!" Anna Matveeva The distinguished writer Arkady Nurov is going through a tough time. His book did not receive the Main Prize, his young actress wife left him for the director of a trendy theater, and his ex-wife—his agent—is concerned not so much about his literary career as about her well-being. What is left? Give up, make peace, drown his sorrows... Or leave the Moscow boulevards for the outskirts, make new acquaintances there, and start writing—a play instead of the long-awaited novel? Soon, the action of the play taking place on board the "Varadero-Moscow" flight seems to Nurov not only more interesting but also more real than his actual life. "—Mizanabim," someone said to him from behind, and he flinched at the unexpectedness. "An artistic device where one work is hidden within another based on the principle of a matryoshka doll."