Relatives and Close Ones. Stories

"Relatives and Close Ones" — a collection of stories by Belarusian playwright and writer Konstantin Steshik. In them, paradoxically, the author's involvement in the texture of the worlds created by his imagination combines with a rare ability to abstract from Euclidean geometry. The works in the collection are a series of dreams, mirages, and mysteries, skillfully masquerading as either memories or scary tales. These are beautiful parts of a vast and expansive world, frozen before the reader's gaze just a moment before decisive and unavoidable events.
The enchantment with death and the inevitability of the finale in Konstantin Steshik's stories leads the reader not into gloomy realism, but into a tenuous enchanted limbo, where fairy tales or myths become intrinsic conditions of living plots and internal conflicts.