Puddle and Mister. Stories

Possessing undeniable literary talent, Yelena Model easily holds the reader within the gravitational pull of her artistic world, dynamic plot, and free flow of authorial speech. One cannot «pretend» to be a writer; the text reveals talent or its absence, and writing is born from an indomitable desire to «say one's word» about the meaning of life and creativity. Yelena Model succeeds in creating a portrait, character, intrigue, and conflict with the help of details, a single touch of the artist's brush to the canvas. The rhythm of her prose resonates, it is prose that one wants to pronounce, to listen to. Conciseness does not destroy the multivoice, but gives the narrative harmony, a unique combination of words, sentences, dialogues, and descriptions.