Кабала

"Discussions about the fate of the Russian novel are increasingly beginning to resemble a sacramental dispute about who (or what?) was born earlier - an egg or a chicken? Are critics intuitively and correctly groping for new literary trends in the development of the most honorable genre of our literature in the information- digital age. Either the novel itself first began to change - in its first, still imperfect experiments - and the far-sighted zoiles, like the aged Picasso, who peeped stylistic finds from the young artists of Montmartre, in these first experiments they try to guess tomorrow. But is it so, is it otherwise and if the powerful, conservative genre of the Russian novel has begun to change, as they used to say, the proportions between form and content, it is beyond the power of literary criticism to predict its self-development.In particular, Alexander Potemkin's new novel The Cabal convinces of this. no, this novel was written not in the traditions of Russian literature, but, as they say now, "in the modern Western style." e time is an absolutely, 100% Russian novel, which in the 21st century, in our time, lathered by the incessant run of turbulent events, very harshly and vividly poses a classic and, in moral terms, almost the most important problem for Russia, formulated to the limit by Nekrasov: "To whom Is it good to live in Russia?"" (Anatoly Salutsky).