For the first time in Russian - a new novel from the author of the postmodern masterpiece “Lampriere's Dictionary”. Now the action does not take place in the age of Enlightenment, but begins in ancient Greece woven from the legends and ends in Paris, on the set. The boar hunters - the beautiful Atalanta and the mighty Meleager, the world-famous poet and friends of his youth - are united by the unique Norfolk versatility and symbolic richness of each act. The boar takes on many guises: either he is a formidable beast from the myth of the Calydonian hunt, or an SS colonel - a menace to the partisans, or a symbol of literary rivalry, or even History itself.