Vadik Korolev from the band “OQJAV”

Vadik Korolev, the voice of the band OQJAV, will read selected passages from his new book of absurdist prose ‘The Snowman’ and, accompanied by a guitar and beating hearts, will sing songs from all times, from the group, as well as new solo ones- in two short sessions.

Literary critic Lisa Birger described ‘The Snowman’ as being like diary entries with numbers but no years. All events seem to happen simultaneously, and it is impossible to understand what happened in reality and what happened in the narrator’s imagination. Sometimes the recordings are extremely specific and realistic, and sometimes what is happening flickers like a fantasy or a dream.

As a result, from aphorisms, notes, observations, a text is formed that becomes, as it were, a cast of a past life, impossible after 2022 – like a snowman, according to the author’s own description, melted from September to August. This is an amazing text in which, through the superficial and the present, you can again and again get to your true self.

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