In a literary culture insufficiently aware of its own past, overcrowded with banal and worn-out notions, overly preoccupied with the unreflective present, Davenport's courageous originality, his erudition and historical imagination never fail to amaze and inspire -Washington Post

Davenport's stories, complete intellectual and erotic, hidden and obvious twists, shine like the sun on a windy, cloudless day -New York Times

He curses progress and defends the benefits of the eternal return with a passion reminiscent of Borges... Exotic, erotic, stunning! -Los Angeles Times

Davenport's delicacies are exquisite, elegant, delicate - of the rarest type: they are works like no other -Village Voice

© Author's collection, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1996© Dmitry Volchek, 2003, translation, compilation, notes© Maxim Nemtsov, 2003, translation, notes