Sans Souci Palace, a bar in the historical quarter of Riga, a random song whose name I can’t remember... In each of the three parts of Andrei Levkin’s new book, the text is born from observations of reality, and then itself becomes an object of reflection. A walk through Potsdam and Riga or internet surfing through cult rock albums turns into a consistent cutting off of the “external” layers of reality, an attempt to reveal the spirit of a place and time. Levkin’s original writing strives for extreme precision, which brings him closer to poetry: thanks to this property of his language, the imaginary and real spaces of Europe described in the book are revealed to the reader in a completely new light. Andrey Levkin is a prose writer, editor, journalist, laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize in the “Prose” category (2001). Author of the books “Lucky Trap”, “Marple”, “From Chicago”, “Vienna, Operating System (Wien OS)”, “Naked Brains, Tiled Counter” published by the UFO publishing house.