`Pyatoe izmerenie` - literatura o literature, ot protopopa Avvakuma do Mit"kov, ot Svifta i Defo do Remarka. A mezhdu nimi - Lomonosov i Barkov, Pushkin i Griboedov, Gogol", Dostoevskij, tretij Zhemchuzhnikov, Kharms, Mandel"shtam, Dyuma, Zoschenko, Platonov, pochemu-to Khruschev i Shostakovich, Lidiya Ginzburg, Oleg Volkov, Nabokov, Aleshkovskij, Zhvanetskij... Avtor - v lichnykh otnosheniyakh so vsemi v pyatom izmerenii pamyati, lichnoj i istoricheskoj, na granitse prostranstva i vremeni, chast"yu kotorogo yavlyaetsya sam.