Chatter cicadas. Loy A.

The novel "Bitter Cicadas" tells about the life of a modern writer with all its experiences and failures; About his work on the book about St. Petersburg, which reflects the mystical side of this unusual city. The hero’s appeal to the image of cicata is metaphorical meaning. Singing cicata symbolizes light, a larva living underground - a shadow. In every person there is a bright and dark beginning. Shadow - the quintessence of the dark, the presence of which a person does not even realize in himself, forces him to commit crazy acts. The professor, who dismembered the body of his young mistress, an old manea woman, young Goths who killed and ate their girlfriend-such is the impact on the psyche of a man, hiding in the subconscious. The main character of the novel is involved in the chain of events that cannot be explained by rational logic. There is a mysterious occult rite, and a subsiding portrait, and a suddenly flashed love for a beautiful and mysterious stranger, the search for which becomes the goal of his life.