About the book: 2024 / Valery Popov is a prose writer, memoirist, author of the books “Life is a Good Thing,” “Ink Angel,” “The Mosquito Lives While He Sings,” “Dance Until death", "Dovlatov" (in the series "ZhZL"); representative of the St. Petersburg sixties; was familiar with Andrei Bitov, Sergei Dovlatov, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Golyavkin, Vladimir Uflyand. Popov’s books are always grotesque and fantasy; his texts are called “bright, absolutely personal, unique in texture.” “Under the gaze of Valery Popov, the happy reality with one jerk reaches a different level of intensity, inaccessible in ordinary life. A ray of light from Popov’s early books reaches his later works, like the radiation of an unextinguished star” (Alexander Genis).