To dust. Jean-Louis Bailly. - Ivan Limbach Publishing House, 2016. - 184 p. “ Follow my actions carefully, you will be able to repeat them when the next corpse comes to you ” - do not run away, the author of these lines is not crazy or a murderer. The pataphysicist writer Jean-Louis Bailly, one of whose novels has just been published in Russian translation by the Ivan Limbach Publishing House, invites the reader to play with a completely dead citizen.

If Rita did not visit Stazhinsky for a long time, he would walk until late along the crowded L. from cafe to cafe. He was often joined by old friends who also loved to wander the streets of the city of their youth, which in just five years had become a real Mecca for tourists of any income. The historical center was bustling with diverse life day and night.

Yesterday they gave out money for consummation, private dancing and sex. In short, for everything for which you do not immediately receive cash in your hands, for which the guest pays directly to the club. Whoever earned what and how much was given out. And whoever did not earn anything received nothing. There was a line of girls lined up along the bar, towards the first VIP. They sat on chairs, chatted, were silent, drank, someone took a turn and went to the toilet or dance. A strange sight.

Is there a hell, and if so, what is it? Some people consider hell to be a very real spiritual or material place, while others consider it an illusion. Theosophy believes that hell is primarily a state of consciousness, during or after life: “We can say that there are states that can be called hellish, but they are mainly associated with a person’s own state of soul.

I Lord! on love's altar lies the sacrament. O willing victim, eager to be slain, Lusting to feel the knife, the life-veil rent, Assumption energized by death!