Piatoe izmerenie. Na granitse vremeni i prostranstva - Bitov Andrei Georgievich

Andrei Bitov's requirements for essayism are the same as for fiction (from "Silence of the Word" (1971) to "Muse of Prose" (2013)..
"Fifth dimension" is the unity of texts written at different times, in different places and on different occasions (round dates or the release of a rare book, interview or discussion), and often without a visible, external reason. Events and persons, the author and the reader are closed in a single space - memory, even when it comes to contemporaries. "Literature turned out to be more ancient knowledge than science," says Andrei Bitov.