Kibirov’s novel is so classical in form that it looks completely innovative. It contains all the necessary elements of the plot — love, trials, death threatening the heroes and a happy deliverance from it, as well as extensive authorial digressions with discussions about good and evil (as well as poetry).
Kibirov’s novel is so classical in form that it looks completely innovative. It contains all the necessary elements of the plot — love, trials, death threatening the heroes and a happy deliverance from it, as well as extensive authorial digressions with discussions about good and evil (as well as poetry). Under the guise of classicism, the author dares to do what, it would seem, is not allowed to anyone today in the framework of “serious” literature. He, resolutely rejecting the thesis that art teaches nothing, moralizes and teaches. The love couple meanwhile is unusual. This is an old woman and a dog. A village resident, Alexandra Yegorovna, is left to keep a dog named Lada by departing summer residents who do not want to take the animal to a clean city apartment. Starting with a forced neighborhood, Aunt Shura and Lada find in each other a kindred spirit. And the reader finds a picture of the very love that he always dreamed of — devoted, reckless and mutual.
Time, 196 s.