“Dead Language” is a new novel by the cult St. Petersburg writer. Mastery and florid prose, unusual plot, gentle humor and amazing optimism are the trademarks of this recognized and beloved author. What is this novel about? About love and hate, about the futility of desires, about hope and the awareness of its illusory nature, about a world that has reached its expiration date. The heroes' roots yearn for the heavenly land, but reality is catastrophic even when it puts on the mask of well-being and prosperity. The attempts of the heroes to return the status of reality to the society of the spectacle, to turn cranberry juice into hot blood again, fail over and over again. But the “soul of Stavrogin” they found, the nature of which remains not fully understood, gives them a chance to regain Eden in the form of the first humans. Such a story. I must say, quite confusing...