Shelest bambukovoho hayu: Ukrainska 2023

In a new book of short prose, the poet, prose writer and publicist Stanislav Aseev appears before us as a subtle lyricist, whose works emerge as if from timelessness, from the twilight, as if you are seeing depicted events in a dream. Known to the general public primarily as a publicist, the author of the books " Svitlyi shlach: the story of one concentration camp " and "In isolation" (for the latter, he won the Shevchenko Prize in the category "Publicism and Journalism"), Stanislav will surprise readers with penetrating texts of various genres, which were written in the period between 2011-2021. In them, a charming lady illuminates the darkness of an indifferent city with her tears, a priest and a murderer are forced to share one prison cell into two, lovers go to the end of the world, and a businessman-trader knows how to calculate his entire life on a calculator. The book also contains a diary that the author kept in 2014-2016. Starting with the infamous "parade of prisoners" in Donetsk and ending with the funeral of the Motorola terrorist, Stanislav records his own emotions and thoughts step by step: what does a person feel when the whole familiar world is destroyed before his eyes, cannonade tears the sky overhead, and God, who did not stop world carnage, did not save millions of innocent people from suffering and death, did not go down to Auschwitz - should we wait for him here in Donetsk?