Hunting. A Brief Russian Novel

«Hunting. A Brief Russian Novel» is an innovative text about the possibility of language to bring closer and distance. It consists of fourteen-line chapters and formally refers to the first Russian novel, «Eugene Onegin». This is a poetic culmination of numerous trips by Hedzhinyan to late Soviet Leningrad and intense communication with a circle of local writers, among whom the poet Arkady Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zinaida hold a special place. In «Hunting», events, things, people, and languages shimmer, the starting point, shifting, turns into an ellipsis, and the constant rejection of closure becomes the image of the book. By handing over the reins of understanding the text to the reader, Hedzhinyan encourages them to make a multitude of decisions and interpretations, ultimately leading the reader to realize their own way of reading, their own way of perceiving words and the world.