The Echo of the Acrobats

Vladimir Jankovski's latest novel, "The Echo of the Acrobats", winner of the Pegaz Award for Best Unpublished Novel in 2024, is more like a grammar of love than a love story. Without abandoning his recognizable narrative poetics based on love with all its beautiful faces and ugly vices, Jankovski digs deeper into society and family relationships this time. "The Echo of the Acrobats" is a broken family photo with a father in the center and children scattered around the periphery, a narrative puzzle with 100 heads and countless meaningful tails. With masterful minimalism and a crystal-clear style, Jankovski cinematically edited the story of sadness and emptiness, of success and failure, of the rise and fall of a family... with witty, deep and unforgettable shots and cuts.