Spirits for robots and mannequins of stories. Kantsev A.V.

“Spirits for robots and mannequins”-the second collection of prose by Alexander Cantsev, a literary critic-Japonist, critic, an essayist, laureate of the prize Andrei Bely. Woven from stories, fairy tales, anti -utopias, dreams, poetry and journalism, the narrative as if balancing between a personal diary, metaphysical chronicle and the Maxim genre. Fragmentation and aphorism, which are often found in experimental texts and threatening disagreement, gain, however, other, directly opposite properties - unexpected paradoxes and depth that distinguishes them with Japanese koans and haiku.

As a result, postmodern poetics seem to develop itself: behind a strange manner of a letter inherited by Emil Choran, Ernst Junger, Vladimir Kazakov and Boris Ostanin, something besides intersecting codes and discourse is a lane and anxious secret that is "that is" Not what they are silent about, but what is not pronounced. "