"‘if you do not kill you are not taken seriously’"

"Like the mythical Orpheus who traveled to the underworld in an attempt to coax Eurydice ‘out of the entrails of hell’…"

"He is in a rage with everyone who is alive when his child is dead. In a rage most of all against this girl, whom for …"

"No one kills himself, Matryosha. You can put your life in danger but you cannot actually kill yourself. It is more li…"

"Am the very one who died and was buried... Pavel the one who lives and will always live’"

"Not only old, but a ghost, an angry, abandoned spirit’"

"An old man in a corner with nothing to do but to pick over the pages of his losses’"

"‘an old, blinkered horse going round and round in a circle, rolling out the same old story day after day’"

"‘famished children waiting for the angel of death’"

"What of me, what of my place in your utopia?’ ("