John Flanders. Goat

The “goat "is a characteristic novel by Jean Ray in Hypostasi John Flanders - forced by the pseudonym, when Ray himself stopped printing under her own surname. Two lines are intertwined in the novel- detective and spi-

Onska. As in a classic detective, salvation comes from people whom the main character once helped. As in a classic spy novel. Not without a mysterious agent of special services. The novel ends with a characteristic Happy end era, evil is punished, virtue triumphs. But Jean Ray (or, in this case, John Flanders) cannot do without mysticism. No wonder critics characterized his style as "Gothic surrealism". The reader recognizes Jean Ray (John Flanders) from a new side, and the right word will not be disappointed