Lyubovnyy kanon

Kak i obeschaet nazvanie, pered nami sbornik istoriy o lyubvi. Mozhno skazat', enciklopediya lyubvi – materinskoy, docherney, supruzheskoy, devich'ey, zakonnoy, bezzakonnoy, trogatel'noy, robkoy, strastnoy, kakoy ugodno, no chasche vsego – posledney. Klyuchevoy moment v kazhdoy povesti – chuvstvo pustoty i bessmyslennosti zhizni, kotoroe ohvatyvaet togo, kto poteryal lyubimogo cheloveka. No v to zhe vremya kniga govorit i o drugom, pryamo protivopolozhnom: zhizn' osmyslenna, i dokazatel'stvom tomu sluzhat beschislennye povtory i peresecheniya sudeb sovershenno nepohozhih drug na druga lyudey. Ne pryamym slovom, a labirintom etih povtorov-variaciy avtor kak by podskazyvaet chitatelyu: vse na svete ne sluchayno, da i smerti, navernoe, net. Nataliya Sokolovskaya – ne novichok v literature. Ona pechatala stihi, perevody, povesti i rasskazy v tolstyh zhurnalah, opublikovala pod psevdonimom roman «Literaturnaya rabynya: budni i prazdniki». Odnako tol'ko posle vyhoda «azbuchnogo» sbornika stanovitsya yasno, chto v russkoy literature est' bol'shoy master, nichem ne ustupayuschiy Ulickoy, Petrushevskoy, Tokarevoy ili (ranney) Tat'yane Tolstoy. Andrey Stepanov, professor SPbGU