Contents: Personal and professional biography - Critical contexts and Reception - Writing 'Pornography of the Spirit': An Introduction to Popov's Short Stories - Narration and Discourse: The Refusal of Significance in the Short Story - 'Life's Tragedy I'll Transform into Reverie-Farce': Short Story Cycles in Metropole and Catalogue - From Story to Self: Biography and the Authorial Person as Narrative Objects - Whose Soul is a Patriot? Making 'Non-Existent' Persons History in The Soul of a Patriot - Resurrecting the Soul of a Patriot and Refusing the Novel in The Splendour of Life and Later Works. sakriti opis