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Moscow-Petushki from circa 1969-1973. This book is about a complete alcoholic who, on his endless bender, is going on a train to a village near Moscow (called "Petushki") where his little son and his "woman" are, and talking to himself and to the voices in his head, sharing the *specific* knowledge he has about the world.

It's like if Electrochemistry, Rhetoric and Conceptualization wrote a book together.

This book is fucking hilarious in the *exact* Disco way (I don't know how to describe it better). But then, if you think about it a little more, it becomes scary and even disgusting sometimes (especially because it's an autobiography actually).

It so strangely feels literally the same as Disco Elysium, even though I'm almost sure the authors didn't read it, and I'm not sure if they even know about it. The book is like a reflection of DE in a cracked glass, or like its sibling from another world.

The book is pure USSR underground, written by a worker on a construction site. Obviously it wasn't published until Perestroika (which means "reconstruction" in Russian, btw). And then it became an underground classic.

Honestly, it's hard to describe this book) It's incredible.

Especially if you know Russian, you MUST know about it (there is also an audiobook voiced by the author!!!)

P.S. There are multiple English translations! Sorry I didn't made it obvious