About the book: 2004 / UDC 82-1/9 (31)BBK 84С11С 78 Artist Leonid Lyuskin Stakhov Dmitry Yakovlevich A Dream at the Beginning of the Century: Novel, stories /Dmitry Stakhov. - "Olita", 2004. - 320 p. The stories and novel “The Story of the Poor Man’s Sufferings, or Polovinkin’s Seven Voyages” (nominated for the Russian Bestseller Award in 2001), which make up the book “A Dream at the Beginning of the Century,” are filled with unbridled, careless, crazy fun. Fun against the backdrop of growing absurdity and crazy plot twists. The author’s brilliant language and appeal to folklore allow a three-dimensional depiction of today’s life... ISBN 5-98040-035-4 © JSC "Olita" © D. Stakhov