"Motif. Pull and Push" ("Motiv. K sebe, ot sebya"), – "Agraf", Moscow, 2002, 331 pp. – The volume actually consists of two books under the same cover. (1) Collection of poems "Motif" and (2) 4 chapters of prose: I. "Incoincidence" – about modern and classical literature: Khodasevich and Georgi Ivanov, Anatoli Shteiger and Gaito Gazdanov, Boris Pasternak (essay "I vsem, chem dyshalos'"); II. "Trifles of Life" – short stories; III. "Ot aza do izhitsy" – 21 reviews and articles about books, theatre performances, artists, films ("Captivated by `Besidged` " – Bernardo Bertolucci; "Torture Camera" – Lars von Trier"), etc.; IV. "Homo Normalis" – responses to terrible and abnormal realities of Russia.