Boys and others

Dmitry Garichev managed to find a special expressiveness to describe the life world of heroes whose youth fell between the years 1990-2010. They exist as if inside a multidimensional painful fantasy, which, however, turns out to be less cruel than the emerging reality of today's empty time. The novella "Boys," which opens the book, tells of a peculiar philosophical experiment - a strange "republic" in a state of eternal simulative war, behind which, of course, real military actions can be guessed. Following the hero, musician Nikita, the reader observes how the historical-political game, born from the imagination of intellectuals, leads to a cruel denouement. The book also includes the cycle "Fairy Tales for Dead Children," continuing the novella's line, and several separate stories whose heroes are united by a fear of the world that is incomprehensible to them. Its embodiment becomes easily recognizable Moscow suburbs, serving as a purgatory where the choice between sleep and reality, good and evil, past and present is almost impossible. Dmitry Garichev is a poet, prose writer, laureate of the Andrey Bely Prize and the "Moscow Score" Prize, author of the book "Lakinsk Project," published in "NLO."