The debut novel of film critic and translator Mikhail Zakharov hardly fits into the genre framework of a coming-of-age novel or any other conventional literary form. It's a collage of memoirs, film essays and reviews with neat bibliographical references, unexpected literary allusions and quotes from comics and video games. Stories about Tinder dates and trips to festivals give way to a critical analysis of the works of Olivier Assayas and Claire Denis, and the book ends with a list of sources used. “Drama Romance” is a book about wandering and searching for oneself, about love and identity, a book about cinema, words , text and image.