Happy Felix

"Beautiful language. Piercing clarity of being. The continuity of the genus and memory is all that the real reader is longing for now, ”Dina Rubina answered about the first book of Elena Katishonok“ Once upon a time, an old man and an old woman ”. Since then, the author had three more novels, she became a popular writer, laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana prize, as if noting the Tolstoye reflection in her prose. And in full accordance with the Yasnaya Polyan tradition, Elena Katishonok presents the reader with a book of small prose - stories, novels and "abstract of the novel", as she herself designated the genre of "happy Felix", from which she literally causes her breath. Yes, and other stories, probably, the author could expand from "abstracts" into more spacious canvases. I could - but did not. Because he knows the price of an accurate detail, a laconic phrase, an expertly built plot