Collector of oddities. Bezhin L.

The stories and novels of Leonid are returned, they make visible and tangible, it would seem, forever the past time-the 60s, 70s, 80s of the last century. Strange - or rather, strangely recognizable! - The atmosphere of the era reigns in these works. It seems to be a greenhouse stuffiness, but also a thirst for free wind... somnambulic wandering, but at the same time the search for at least some goal... a feeling of a dead end, a sense of hopelessness, hopelessness - and at the same time the joy of a “secret freedom”, sometimes acquired in simple, and sometimes sophisticated ways : studying English in special schools, psychological training, mathematical study of literature, mastering the cult of tea... Written by a pure and clear syllable, in the tradition of classical Russian prose, the stories and novels of Leonid Rastivin - like a picture gallery, the canvases of which captured Russia on the fancy breaks of its historical fate.