Factory of horror

Igor Shestkov (Igor Heinrich Schestkow) began to write prose in Russian in 2003, after he stopped drawing and exhibited and moved from Saxon Kemits to Berlin. In the first years, he, like many other emigrant writers, recalled and processed the life experience gained in his homeland in prose. These stories of Igor Shestkov were included in the book "Bacchanalia" (Aletaea, St. Petersburg, 2009).

A real collection of "terrible stories" also contains several texts (" obsession "," princess", "carbunct ," cloud of oort "," on the neck of the boatswain "," laboratory "), the action of which takes place as if in The USSR, but they have already lost their genuine realistic basis, and, disguised as memories, are fantasies facing the past. In other stories, the author processes "Western" life experience, consistently creates his own version of "magical realism", without hesitation, sends his heroes to post -apocalyptic, surreal, posthumous worlds, watches them, records and turns these notes into short stories. The grotesque and exaggeration here do not lead the reader into the jungle of meaningless fantasies, but on the contrary, allow us to approach the real reality of the new time and the attitude of the new person