Vasily Aksenov is seriously alarmed. In “October” (No. 8), the glorious novelist published the article “Miracle or Eccentricity. About the fate of the novel." Fate, apparently, is sad: on the American book market, the good old novel is crowded out by works in the non-fiction genre and low-quality bestsellers, the penultimate novel by Aksenov himself, “The New Sweet Style,” was not successful, and the last novel, “Caesarean Glow,” was not at all rejected by the publishing concern Random House.
