Justified jealousy

ILLEGAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTICS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HARM TO HEALTH, THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND CARRIES LEGAL LIABILITY.The prose of Andrei Bitov from the 1960s–80s became a classic of 20th-century Russian literature, but today it feels like a natural response to the present day. The collection of novellas “Justified Jealousy” is an analogue of the posthumous edition that Andrei Georgievich Bitov (1937–2018) compiled with particular care. The book is supplemented by the autobiographical “Postscriptum,” written by him at the end of his life.“I am not a pack animal. I think that man is not entirely a pack animal at all. When he leaves it, he becomes a marginal figure. An artist or a criminal. I was lucky enough to choose the former, but the latter could have happened too. And, as long as I am alive, I cannot completely pass by life. No, no! It will touch me” (Andrei Bitov).