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Shutov is a has-been Russian émigré writer living in Paris whose very name means "clown," as his much younger French girlfriend derisively points out before dumping him. To recover, he decides to return to Saint Petersburg for the city's 300th-anniversary celebration. Staying with newly rich Yana, a tenderly remembered friend too self-involved to have much time for him, Shutov comes across the elderly Volsky...Log In or Sign Up to Read More