White horse, pale horseman. Porter K.E.

“What is life, and what should I do with it?”

This excited phrase of the heroine of one of the novels of the collection “White Horse, Pale Horseman”, where every short story is worth a big novel , can serve as an epigraph for the whole work of Katherine Porter. Wherever the action of these stories takes place - on a small dairy farm among the plains of Texas, or in a big city, no matter what the plot is based on a random crime or a vague, thunderstorm atmosphere of the First World War, the main thing for the writer is always the experiences of the human heart.