EPILOGUE

How can one contemplate one’s one routine existence from outside and yet still with insight into one’s concrete circumstances? Through the chance visit of a family member: father-in-law (busy) meets son-in-law (preoccupied). An at times strange, then stiff, and finally refreshing constellation. Two generations face off in Khutsiev’s first farewell work (others would follow) – the younger, latently depressed, the older, eminently present and agile. The result: a masterful chamber piece between telephone and typewriter terror, claustrophobic, explosive and rich with subversive potential. In addition, a commentary on life under Brezhnev.