YAvlenie prizrakov

ZHan-ZHak SHul′ — laureat «Gonkurov», muzh Ingrid Kaven, priyatel′ Sen-Lorana — nachal pisat′ etot roman, daby osmyslit′ strannoe predlozhenie, postupivshee ot Raulya Ruisa: snyat′sya v rimejke fil′ma «Ruki Orlaka» v roli bezumnogo doktora Gogolya. Vmesto s′′emok SHul′ puskaetsya v plavanie po volnam svoej pamyati, gde mercayut bluzhdayushhie ogon′ki literatury i kinematografa: shlyaetsya po nochnomu Parizhu s Dzharmushem; p′yanstvuet v Rime 80-ch s prodyuserom Rassamom; uchitsya derzhat′ sigaretu u Fassbindera; oplakivaet druga yunosti ZHana Estasha; presleduet duch Talejrana i rastvoryaetsya v personazhach SHekspira, Prusta, ZHida, Bataya i Et′ena Dao.