Listen to the Song of the Wind. Pinball 1973

A sad tale for older school age. The story began on August 8, 1970, and ended 18 days later — that is, on August 26 of the same year. The entire story lasts nineteen full days, the narrator assures us, but not the author. If you count carefully, you'll see that this story doesn't fit into nineteen days, no matter what. Will you believe it or check it? “Over the summer, Rat and I drank a 25-meter swimming pool of beer and covered the floor of the Jazz bar with a five-centimeter layer of peanut shells. If we hadn't done that, we simply wouldn't have survived; it was such a boring summer.” Everything that is dear and close to the main character comes to an end. It is lost, dies, and transitions to another world. The main question is how to relate to all this? “Pinball” begins in September 1973. This is the entrance. But the main thing is to understand where the exit is. There must be an exit. Definitely. “Listen to the Song of the Wind” 1979 and “Pinball 1973” 1983 are the first two novels of the “Rat Trilogy,” a famous cycle by the writer, concluding with “A Wild Sheep Chase” 1988 and continued with the novel “Dance, Dance, Dance” 1991.