...And why not define a pie as a model of the world. Pie, as you know, is a multi-component thing. In the case of Naiman and this book, the top layer of the test is Anna Akhmatova - a poet who defined Poetry with her Faith. The bottom layer is the poet Stas Krasovitsky, who determined for himself the dominance of Faith over Poetry. The very physicality of the pie is everything. Bookcase of poetry - Brodsky. Dovlatov - letter from voice. Aksenov jazzmen and climbers. Golyavkin - the intransigence of truth, the invincibility of sympathy. Borisov, here it is special: Solzhenitsyn condemned him (and Solzhenitsyn’s “our everything” is purer than Pushkin’s), but in honor - not especially ours, not especially everything. And therefore Borisov is good. Honest, that's all. An honest book by Anatoly Naiman - that's what we would call it.