Trap. Matute A.

The will of Donya Praxedes, the “old column”, an indestructible and eternal tyrant, brings the heroes of the novel on the island under one roof. Relatives gather at her centenary. Matia arrives, her cousin Borkh, the son of Matia Bea (a bear cub, as he is called in the family). There are also not called guest Mario, who will hide the Bea in one of the rooms. From the very beginning of the novel, you suspect that something should happen during the holiday.

“Trap” is a diary in the disorder that Matia led, returning to the old house. A mess of devastation, nonsense, pains of a mother who has lost a common language with her son.

the book fill the internal monologues of the heroes, it is they who create the psychological atmosphere of anxiety, contradictions, dissatisfaction, revenge and struggle.

to lose Time - the chapters of Bea'e are the son of Matia. With unmistakable intuition of youth, he guesses superficiality, habit, selfish indifference in love of relatives. In all words addressed to him, he hears a lie, hypocrisy - and only the words about destruction seem genuine and alive to him. And therefore - the sooner the better. Are they right, twenty -year -olds, in their disinterested and aimless riot? “Bear, where are you? Where are you now? Where are you going? "