Козлиная песнь by Konstantin Vaginov

A phantasmagoric, elegiac tale set in a decaying Petrograd, following a weary aesthete whose obsession with a mythical “goat song” and with music, memory and ritual becomes a means to wander through ruined streets, bizarre characters and hallucinatory episodes; blending satire, lyricism and grotesque humor, the narrative meditates on cultural loss, the persistence of myth and the fraught place of art and memory amid social upheaval.