After Love

Mikhail Levitin is a theater director, artistic director of the "Hermitage" theater, People's Artist of Russia, writer, and author of two dozen books.
"After Love" is a novel about the profession of a director, about performances, about actors, about Odessa and... Moscow, about eccentricity and OBERIU members, and of course, about people of the theater.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Viktor Shklovsky, Alisa Koonen and Lyubov Polishchuk, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, Petr Fomenko and Yuri Lyubimov, Rita Wright-Kovalyeva and Kurt Vonnegut, David Borovsky and Vladimir Vysotsky…

"The theater is you. From nothing. In search of oneself. Surely alive, not found, not discovered, but alive, marked by God. The character's fate is immortality. Each one!"
Mikhail Levitin