A book about childhood—about knowing the world through a sensitive, receptive child’s soul. It is built on the writer’s memories of his own childhood.
“Broken Life, or Oberon’s Magic Horn” is a book written from autobiographical material. Composed of separate fragments—memories—it is united by a single artistic concept and recreates a harmoniously complete picture of the writer’s early years. And in this work of V. Kataev, such features of his style appear as grotesque, lyricism, wit, attentiveness, and a concrete-sensory perception of the world.