Devochki. Rasskazy

O tom, kak razlichayutsya mezhdu soboy mir zhenskiy i mir muzhskoy, luchshe vsego znayut antropologi, izuchayuschie zhizn' narodov, esche ne vstupivshih na put' civilizacii, - malen'kih plemen iz Afriki, Okeanii, trudnodostupnyh vysokogoriy Yuzhnoy Ameriki. No i v nashey pochti segodnyashney zhizni (deystvie rasskazov proishodit v 50-e, 60-e gody proshlogo, dvadcatogo veka), esli pristal'no vglyadet'sya, mozhno razlichit' cherty etoy arhaicheskoy zhizni. Chem glubzhe v detstvo, tem blizhe k istokam chelovecheskoy prirody. Sbornik rasskazov "Devochki" - popytka zaglyanut' v mir devochek, v tainstvennyy mir, kotoryy zahlopyvaetsya za nami, kak tol'ko my vyrastaem.