Cat de Voire and others. I SU

The collection includes “aesthetic tales”, stories in which the plot is only a canvas for elegant verbal constructions. The author is more concerned about the rhythm and consonance of words, the game of meanings, references to historical images and literature monuments. In the “Tale of the Fisherman”, for example, the ornate images from “Thousand and One Night” and the misadventures of the Apuleev donkey mixed, and in the “Fairy Tale of Balda”, the pop is the hero of the banal “Maupassan” history, while the history of Balda is stated in the genre of “ Lives ". The Orchestra Pit illustrates the morphology of the fairy tale, and the adventures of the aristocratic “Slitsa” are a whole heroic myth, which is reduced to the household plane of an ordinary St. Petersburg court. In the history of “About the cat de Voir”, Baudelaire and Kant are mentioned, and the heroine “rests on the seventh day (it was Saturday)”, which refers the reader to the book of Genesis. Tales are written easily and elegant, with a sense of humor. The book also included poems from four poetic cycles: “The first snow” - a sad autumn lyrics, “Gothic” - mystical fantasies, “Tales” - short ballads and “Siberian tract” - poems about the soul, paganism and Christianity.