Over a half century ago, after Leonid Gaidai’s film “The Leader of the Redskins,” a story about two con artists who desperately need money and decide to kidnap the son of a wealthy townsman for a ransom has been told to our compatriots. In “The Adventurers” (as in many other author’s novellas), the focus is on the roads we choose.
“Happiness is a prize you have to strive for. Adventure is the road that leads to it. Chance is what sometimes looms from the shadows along the edges of the road. …An adventurer is the one who keeps looking at fences and suburban groves and meadows on the way to happiness.”