A man of the nineties, the former editor of Ptyuch and Time Out writes about the era he has come to be associated with.
DJs and musicians, artists, celebrities and oligarchs, street names, clubs and restaurants flickering in the background fall into a single picture of the decade like bits of a giant puzzle. The novel opens a new series The Invisible published by Eksmo.
The protagonist in this story is the nineties: the still unknown and unstudied decade that has nevertheless become an object for all sorts of speculations. It seems like the nineties was yesterday, and we have not had the time to work out the parameters to understand that time—the memories are still too fresh. And yet today the nineties are becoming history, so they can and need to be studied. The nineties are starting to rethink themselves in literature.
Anna Khrustalyova, critic, Rossiyskaya gazeta