A novel of ideas: prose about the ideological divide in the creative community. "flood. "Petersburg Novel" is a modern socio-psychological novel, the action of which takes place within the modern theater community of St. Petersburg. The reader finds himself in a world where external respectability coexists with dependence on other people's decisions, and professional success often requires concessions that can hardly be called harmless. As the critics note, Troitskaya in her novel stated loud and clear: the theater was stolen from us, turned it into a stage for wild stage experiments and called it "a new word in theater art." Ozone W.B. Read the city.