Tales of postmodern. Shmarakov R. L., Malyshev I. A.

Self -portrait with oyster in the pocket.

The novel by Philologist Roman Shmarakov is an example of a subtle literary game in which the reader offers several roles at once; In addition to the traditional one, in which you need to monitor the development of the plot and the beauty of the style and language, these are the roles of an insightful detective (after all, all murder should be revealed), a connoisseur of a thin English humor (and who does not like Jevs and Wuster?), A lover of stories from the "Decameron" Boccaccio and the “suffering Middle Ages”, the symbols of baroque painting and allegories. In the interweaving of the plot lines and the “weave of the Word”, more than just a novel is a postmodern novel, multi -layer, where everyone can subtract their own and where there is a place for a lot: “heroic deeds” of their ancestors, clashes of myth -workers and mythosils, spiritualistic sessions and a bureau caused that world of spirits.

Theatrical fairy tale.

Igor Malyshev was remembered by many little novel, “Fox” - a charming prose that absorbed the influence of Marquez and Gogol, who reads, on the one hand, like a fairy tale about a little forest demon, and on the other, like a real story. The new Roman Malyshev also balances on the verge between the city fairy tale and the past: in the center of the story of the fate of two teenagers - a mouse and branches that turned out to be the actors of the mysterious theater on the Raushskaya embankment of the Moscow River. In this theater, spaces and times intersect, the reality of the capital's streets flows into the universe of fiction, the monuments of human vices established in Bolotnaya Square are found with the legends of ancient Greece. You will meet here Dionysus, surrounded by a crowd of bacchanes and fauns, icy divers, melting ice with their bodies, and an amazing gnome that was once a man, but sacrificed life for the sake of his beloved... This story will remind you of the “faun” Guillermo Del Toro, “an imaginary friend "Stephen Chobsky and, of course, Shakespeare" Romeo and Juliet ". Because a story in which there is no love is not a story.