About the book: 2023 / "We must leave - but where? We must stay, but where can we find a place?” The global cataclysms of recent years have shaped many of us into a sense of real and transcendental homelessness and forced us to rethink our relationship to space and geography. Stanislav Snytko’s book “The History of Prose in Descriptions of the Earth” is an artistic study of new temporal and spatial conditions, a chronicle of isolation and at the same time an attempt to open the door to a closed consciousness. Literature and history become the refuge of the loner who has lost his sense of home: he wanders through rabbit holes in their very fabric and tries on a wide variety of experiences. He discovers unexpected connections between the chronicle of his own illness and the history of narrative prose from antiquity to the Leningrad underground, and the text itself turns into a poem about the role of geography in literature, about rare old books, comic trifles of everyday life and about high irony that mysteriously connects the most distant ideas and things.