The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Puteshestvie k Istochniku Ekha)

An irresistible thirst for the illusion of one's own power, a belief acquired for short periods in one's ability to fill the void of loneliness and turn back time, a desire to forget the failures that haunt you and the series of losses that make up existence: all this unites two addictions to the creation of an imaginary alternative to life - art and alcoholism.