Тупики и тропы. Книга короткой прозы

Kniga korotkoĭ prozy Marka Amusina, literaturoveda, doktora filologii, avtora knigi o Bratʹi͡akh Strugat͡skikh i soten stateĭ o sovremennoĭ i zapadnoĭ literature, - napisana so vkusom, azartom i svidetelʹstvuet o talante i i͡arkom voobrazhenii avtora. Ego geroi perezhivai͡ut kafkianskie prevrashchenii͡a, ili provalivai͡utsi͡a v inye parallelʹnye miry, puteshestvui͡ut v proshloe, obladai͡ut udivitelʹnymi sposobnosti͡ami, ili znakomo i strashno idut na smertʹ radi idei, no… i vsegda proiskhodit chto-to, porazhai͡ushchee chitateli͡a. "A chto, esli…" - ėtot vopros, ėto dopushchenie rozhdaet samye prichudlivye i v to zhe vremi͡a uznavaemye si͡uzhety.

The book of short prose by Mark Amusin, a literary critic, Doctor of philology, author of a book about the Strugatsky Brothers and hundreds of articles on modern and Western literature, is written with taste, passion and testifies to the talent and vivid imagination of the author. His characters go through Kafkaesque transformations, or fall into other parallel worlds, travel to the past, have amazing abilities, or go to their deaths for the sake of an idea, but ... and something always happens that amazes the reader. "What if..." – this question, this assumption gives rise to the most bizarre and at the same time recognizable plots.