The "philological novel" by the St. Petersburg scholar who now lives in Germany. In 1995 critics called the publication of the novel in the journal New Literary Review the literary event of the year.
"In my view Bezrodny's The End of the Quote is an event in contemporary Russian prose. <...> The core of The End of the Quote lies in the discovery of the existential basis for philological work, allowing one to see in cold academic studies the autobiographical testimony. When the author speaks about the mechanisms of the creation of insomnia in literature, again he turns to the model of the Petersburg text or analyzes literary onomastics, the figure of the scholar-emigre weighed down by the heavy German nights, is it not his fate to face his own name (Bezrodny=Without a Motherland) and to be sent so far from St. Petersburg's Public Library? This figure clearly defines the logic of the book's juxtapositions and parallels." (A. Zorin).

• The book is designed by David and Sergei Plaksins and illustrated by the works of the noted photographer Andrei Chezhin.

ISBN 5-89059-005-7

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