Dumay, chto govorish'

Est' pisateli, kotorym tesno vnutri literatury, i oni postoyanno probuyut narushit' ee granicy. Nikolay Baytov, skoree, dvizhetsya k nekoemu centru literatury, i eto puteshestvie okazyvaetsya neozhidanno beskonechnym i beskonechno uvlekatel'nym. Esche - Nikolay Baytov umeet vydelyat' neobyknovenno chistye i yarkie kraski: v ego proze sentimental'nost' krayne sentimental'na, pechal' v vysshey mere pechal'na, suhost' suha, vlazhnost' vlazhna - i tak dalee. Esli syuzhet zakruchen, to neveroyatno tugo, esli uzh otpuscheny vozhzhi, to otpuscheny. V itoge poluchaetsya unikal'no vyrazitel'naya, kontrastnaya proza. Veroyatno, blizkaya k mifu, potomu chto istorii Nikolaya Baytova ne prosto zapominayutsya, a budto otzyvayutsya v pamyati, kak esli by my znali ih vsegda.