Дурочка

Svetlana Vasilenko calls herself a representative of `true women's literature, which over the past decade has expanded the boundaries of prose with all the emotionality, insight and ... rigidity characteristic of a woman's temperament. It's hard to argue with this. And the novel - the life of `The Fool`, and the story `Shamar`, and the stories are written firmly, concisely, but with the ingenuity and special plasticity inherent in the `sharp-sighted semi`. ... The dumb `fool` was born in a small military town in the family of an officer, and the parents, having decided to get rid of the `shame`, put the child in a cradle and let him go down the river towards an orphan fate. However, the witching waters took her back 30 years, forced her to experience several fates. A fairy tale, a parable, the Gospel, modern motifs exist in Svetlana Vasilenko's prose on an equal footing, the past, as it were, deciphers the present and dissolves in it, and all this together creates the only universe belonging to this author alone.