О странностях души: повести и рассказы

Avtor ėtoĭ knigi - chelovek mnogogrannyĭ: pisatelʹ, iskusstvoved, kritik, kandidat filosofskikh nauk. Na schetu Very Chaĭkovskoĭ, laureata literaturnoĭ premii im. V. Kataeva i diplomanta Rossiĭskoĭ akademii khudozhestv, pomimo monografiĭ o zhivopist͡sakh proshlogo, estʹ neskolʹko knig prozy. Osobennostʹ nastoi͡ashchego izdanii͡a zakli͡uchaetsi͡a v popytke obʺedinenii͡a novykh rasskazov s temi, chto mnogo let zhdali svoego chasa v stole avtora (razdel "Iz staroĭ tetradi"), a takzhe s nekotorymi ėsseisticheskimi "improvizat͡sii͡ami", publikovavshimisi͡a v raznykh periodicheskikh izdanii͡akh. Vse ėti proizvedenii͡a rodnit avtorskoe stremlenie razobratʹsi͡a v strannosti͡akh i paradoksakh chelovecheskoĭ psikhiki, v toĭ osoboĭ "poėticheskoĭ" nastroennosti dushi, kotorui͡u poroĭ prinimai͡ut za kapriz ili chudachestvo.

The author of this book is a multifaceted person: a writer, art critic, critic, candidate of philosophical Sciences. Vera Tchaikovsky, a laureate of the V. Kataev Literary Prize and a graduate of the Russian Academy of Arts, has several books of prose on her account, in addition to monographs on past painters. The peculiarity of this publication is an attempt to combine new stories with those that have been waiting in the author's desk for many years (the section "From an old notebook"), as well as with some essayistic "improvisations" published in various periodicals. All these works share the author's desire to understand the oddities and paradoxes of the human psyche, in that special "poetic" mood of the soul, which is sometimes mistaken for a whim or eccentricity.