Outdoor games

The new book by Pavel Krusanov, the author of 'Angel's Bite', 'American Hole', 'Dead Language', and other no less unexpected and discussed works, this time is about hunting. Yes, about hunting in its classical, Turgenev-like understanding. But Krusanov wouldn't be Krusanov if he limited himself to a banal presentation of hunting stories about trips for waterfowl and forest game. Yes, this is in the new book, and it is told so vividly, brightly, and with expertise that you feel as if you yourself, like in a computer simulation, are stepping into the swamp boots of the hero and squelching through the marshy mud in anticipation of a lucky shot. The book is actually broader, deeper, and more amazing than just about shooting a gun.
And the geography of this book is not only the Pskov region near Novorzhev. Here is also the Peruvian jungle with its secrets and nighttime fears. There are many other paths that the author leads us on, immersing us in the complex, sometimes unpredictable world of the human inner 'self'.
And of course, the book contains magic because, as the author said in one of the interviews: 'Literature is not just a game of words and meanings, it is the heir of verbal magic, the magic of incantation. Only in the case of literature, the miracle it conjures is of a special nature. After reading a talented book, transformation occurs not on the outside, but inside you. As a result, even if only for a while, you become different, and through you, the surrounding reality changes a bit'.