In Valery Avderin’s book “The Bottomless Bottle,” along with the incredible bottle, there are also fairy tales, humorous stories, and short novellas. Without claiming that they are current or topical, the author nevertheless writes about them. And also about the “eternal”—about what has always been and always will be—about the drama of relationships: fathers and children, men and women, people and animals…
Contents
Preface
A Guiding Work
From the Life of Society
The Myth of Sisyphus
Classmates
The Tale of Egor-the-Tempter and the Three-Headed Snake
How the Beautiful Tsarevna of Snake Mountain drove him to delirium
After the Turnip
Mini-Fairy Tales for Adults
Services of a Killer
A Story about an Ordinary Russian Ivan and a Bottomless Bottle
To All Committees and Presidiums
In GUM
A Magic Torch
Paranormal Chronicles
And off he went to the Tyrian and Sidonian lands
The Newest Covenant
A Roach God
The Story of the Witching Hussar Yanush and the Scientist Cat Dominikus
The Feodosian Tale