84×108/32, hard cover, ill., 256 pp., 2004
ISBN 5-86793-328-8

Writing on contemporary culture for various journals, over the years Lev Rubinstein has developed his own original genre: the lyric essay of morals. Brought together in Chasing Hats and Other Writings, his essays fuse into a single whole, telling the story of the hero through accounts of everyday discoveries and losses. Household objects, city scenes, landscapes, fashions and habits are, in turn, dropped and acquired by Rubinstein’s character. Revisiting the attributes and features of the now-gone Soviet way of life, the author stresses the abrupt change which took place in society as well as his own life.

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