About the book: 2016 / The philosophical realism of Yulia Kokoshko is an almost exclusive phenomenon in modern prose, focused primarily on everyday realism, where poetics is replaced by documentary. In this sense, the title of Yulia Kokoshko's third book is programmatic. Her prose returns to literature the role of “perfect perjury.” This is an elegant fiction, a deep untruth. The word, far from obvious reality, not enslaved by the need to student-copy reality, itself dictates the conditions and builds an artistic narrative. (Valeria Pustovaya)