Эксперимент

Semeĭnai͡a para Dzheka i Ėster perezhivaet krizis. Imenno v ėtot moment v ikh zhiznʹ vryvaetsi͡a vzbalmoshnyĭ Dzhonni - polnai͡a protivopolozhnostʹ muzha Ėster, kholodnogo i raschetlivogo.Sluchaĭnostʹ, obernuvshai͡asi͡a tragedieĭ, stavit geroini͡u pered vyborom. Ėster pridetsi͡a reshitʹ, chto eĭ blizhe - spokoĭnai͡a i stabilʹnai͡a zhiznʹ s muzhem ili i͡arkai͡a, no sovershenno nepredskazuemai͡a s Dzhonni? Ėster kazhetsi͡a, chto ona delaet vybor, no ona li ego delaet na samom dele?"K debi͡utnym proizvedenii͡am v chitatelʹskoĭ srede obychno otnosi͡atsi͡a s dobroĭ sniskhoditelʹnostʹi͡u, odnako roman Roveny Bergman stoit vosprinimatʹ trezvo i strogo. Ne vsi͡akiĭ molodoĭ pisatelʹ vozʹmetsi͡a za issledovanie romanticheskikh, supruzheskikh otnosheniĭ, tem bolee skvozʹ prizmu psikhologicheskogo ėksperimenta. Nuzhno imetʹ opredelennui͡u smelostʹ, chtoby napisatʹ ob ėtom: ne uĭti v izlishniĭ melodramatizm, ne okazatʹsi͡a v lovushke deshevykh manipuli͡at͡siĭ i pri ėtom sokhranitʹ i͡arkostʹ i vypuklostʹ kharakterov geroev. Dinamichnoe povestvovanie, tonkiĭ psikhologizm otsylaet nas k 'Portretu Doriana Grei͡a' Oskara Uaĭlʹda, k tradit͡sii͡am romanov-pritch. I kto znaet, udastsi͡a li geroi͡am 'Ėksperimenta' vybratʹsi͡a iz ėtoĭ istorii prezhnimi?" - Marii͡a Goloveĭ, literaturnyĭ redaktor

Jack and Esther's married couple is going through a crisis. It is at this moment that the flighty Johnny bursts into their lives — the complete opposite of Esther's husband, cold and calculating.An accident that turned into a tragedy puts the heroine before a choice. Esther will have to decide which is closer to her — a calm and stable life with her husband or a bright, but completely unpredictable one with Johnny? Esther feels like she's making a choice, but is she really making it?"The debut works in the reading environment are usually treated with kind condescension, but Rowena Bergman's novel should be taken soberly and strictly. Not every young writer will undertake the study of romantic, marital relations, especially through the prism of a psychological experiment. You need to have some courage to write about it: not to go into excessive melodramatism, not to be trapped in cheap manipulations and at the same time preserve the brightness and convexity of the characters' characters. Dynamic narration, subtle psychologism refers us to the 'Portrait of Dorian Gray' Oscar Wilde, to the traditions of novels-parables. And who knows if the heroes of the 'Experiment' will be able to get out of this story the same?" — Maria Golovey, literary editor