A communal apartment on Petrogradka
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A communal apartment on Petrogradka
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"My body smells of fried potatoes and onions, my hair smells of fried potatoes and onions, my thoughts smell of fried potatoes and onions...". The communal apartment became the protagonist and the scene of action in Soviet fiction more than once. As it turned out, the phenomenon of the communal apartment did not disappear with the fall of the old regime - it adapted to the new times in a surprising way. Roman Osminkin and Anastasia Vepreva settled in a communal room in the center of St. Petersburg and took on the role of chroniclers of this amazing archaic reality. They recorded their impressions in a Facebook blog, from which this semi-documentary narrative grew. The authors deliberately abandoned the detached position of anthropologists for the noble task of describing the communal universe through the prism of their own experience. The result is a paradoxical artistic fusion of dystopia, literary voyeurism and psychological drama. Roman Osminkin is a poet, art critic and performer, author of the books "Comrade Thing" and "Comrade Word", Anastasia Vepreva is an artist, curator and editor of the portal "K. R. A. P. I. V. A.". "Kommunalka na Petrogradka" was first presented as a play fringe-program of the festival of young dramaturgy "Lyubimovka-2019". The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Peredelkino residence for the opportunity to finalize the book in August 2021.
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