Cats and clowns. Stakhov D.

Each story of Dmitry Stakhov is akin to thunder among the clear sky. Take, for example, the story of Prebailov. It begins with a everyday incident: a hero who has been dismissed from work and has lost his taste for life, a business class car doused it. The reader is sure: the further narrative is the showdown of the young man and the owner of the car. But no, the social conflict is resolved without having time to begin. The plot makes an unexpected somersault, and we will learn that the main spring of the story is a conflict of dreams and reality: it longs for Prebailov, it turns out, a woman immortalized in art.

The inaccuracy of the ideal brings to the story the features of the thriller, which at the very beginning was not a hint. And the narrative ends mystically, fabulously, with miracles and phliques. And so in almost every story. And there is nothing to say about fairy tales! But the most interesting thing is not a story, not morality, and not even the character of the hero. Dmitry Stakhov’s most interesting is an experiment, an experiment with life values ​​and with the possibilities of literature. Therefore, "cats and clowns" is an exquisite dish for game readers.