Bad wife of a good husband. Snegirev A.

Today's forty -year -old, in fact, is Russia: they have experienced four phenomenal decades and are now able to live and act in full force. Alexander Snegirev (laureate of the “Russian Boker” for the novel “Vera”) is one of the bright prose writers of this generation. The topics of the new collection “Bad Wife of a good husband” are the eternal relations of the sexes, a search for oneself, loneliness, a spiritual distance between people. But the context, the air itself is extremely modern, and the heroes are full of skepticism and self -irony. Drama is almost Chekhov, tragedies are almost ancient, but time is our days.

“We will marry. She was happy, and I seemed to be a little shy. The witness was a giant Pikachu. This is my idea, the brush of a synthetic monster to the registry office, demonstrated non -standard thinking. Her classmate-operator took off. She cut off my long strands. I myself asked: a new family status is a new haircut. "