Бильярд в половине десятого

Voĭna okonchena? Vozmozhno. No… ne dli͡a tekh, po chʹim sudʹbam ona proshlasʹ ti͡azhelo i besposhchadno. Germanii͡a vosstanovilasʹ i prot͡svetaet? Vozmozhno - dli͡a tekh, kto, soglasno glubokomu simvolizmu romana Bëlli͡a, prini͡al "prichastie buĭvola". Oni - ne vsegda prestupniki, i ruki ikh iskonnykh protivnikov - "agnt͡sev" zachastui͡u tozhe obagreny voĭnoĭ. Odnako imenno oni, polnye plotskoĭ zhazhdy zhizni, khoti͡at zabytʹ o proshlom. A vechno neudobnye "agnt͡sy", oderzhimye pami͡atʹi͡u, ne dai͡ut im ėtogo sdelatʹ! No v denʹ vosʹmidesi͡atiletii͡a magnata Genrikha Femeli͡a budut sbrosheny mnogie maski…

Is the war over? Maybe. But... not for those whose fates she went through hard and mercilessly. Has Germany recovered and is it thriving? Perhaps for those who, according to the deep symbolism of Bell's novel, took the "communion of the buffalo." They are not always criminals, and the hands of their ancestral opponents, the "lambs," are often stained with war, too. However, they are the ones who, full of carnal thirst for life, want to forget about the past. And the eternally inconvenient "lambs", obsessed with memory, do not allow them to do this! But on the day of tycoon Heinrich Femel's eightieth birthday, many masks will be thrown off.…