Angst (novel)
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Angst (Russian: Страх) is a 2001 novel by Oleg Postnov. Critics have claimed that Angst builds on the tradition of Pushkin's Queen of Spades, Gogol's Viy, and even on the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. Angst won the first prize in the "Catch of 1999" Russian nationwide competition.
A story of love of a Russian youth and a Ukrainian beauty is set in the deep Ukrainian country in 1991. Postnov's treatment of the political and ethnographic background of that year became relevant once again in 2014, given the Russian annexation of Crimea.