Passion and death are intertwined in Pavel Vadimov’s novel in such a way that they cannot be separated. A painfully specific medical history echoes in a painfully frank love story. The plot is a very refined version of the romance between man and death, very popular since the time of Jean Cocteau, the era of “golden” metaphorical modernism. The novel “Lupetta” is a slightly cool, northern-style example of modern first-class prose. Somewhere even with the elegant St. Petersburg city center “grassing”. Despite the intense love line, the novel is very restrained and intelligent. It has long been noted that “cool art” retains freshness and relevance longer than passionate and pathetic art, which quickly ages along with its generation. A brilliant prose debut by a young author from St. Petersburg.