This is a tiny yet maximally concentrated novella (fewer than 100 pages), written as a stream of consciousness — devoid of punctuation, capital letters, or pauses for breath. It is a harsh, sexualized, and merciless text about coming of age, violence, power, solitude, and the attempt to break free toward liberty within the post-Soviet space.
“Quirt” has been compared to Burroughs, Kharitonov, Welsh, and Mogutin — yet it sounds entirely independent. This is literature that knocks you out of your comfort zone and offers no ready-made answers.
“he was the leader of this new world its headliner a magician who intuitively understood how to crack the world open like a tin can i wanted to follow him and discover everything that fate had in store for me this wonderful mysterious world that turned out to be so vast thrilling full of joys and delights a world as salty as semen as sweet as condensed milk as generous as a sugar daddy’s anus and this wonderful new shimmering life-affirming destiny like the very center of the universe”
Slava Presnyakov — Quirt
Cover art — Herzlich Willkommen by Gleb Kovalsky
Publisher — Bald Skull (Лысы чэрап)
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