‘The Reverse of Fire’, the Myth of Eurydice and Orpheus Turned Into a Criminal Plot

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Alexeï, the Orpheus we are dealing with, takes part in a time-dislocated journey through Rotterdam, New York, the ancient Kushka, the outline of the Seine, an imaginary Vouchenko and Russia as a symbolic lineage. He seems to look for his Eurydice, missing in a crime, but as in the myth, he does not carry it forward, he drags it behind. He moves through geographys that are difficult to narrow down. Even if the maps say otherwise, the places also …