Significant days

Timur Kudzelich is a writer and book publisher from Minsk. He currently lives and works in Warsaw. He is a supporter of organic avant-garde and conventional literature. He is the author of the prose books "YAK" and "Rats", and the poetry zine "Without This - Everything".

The question, the question and the optional answer. Fear of another person, of their imagination. Conventionality! The fear of fighting back, of seeing and feeling. Political statement, a farce in confused spaces. Fragile attempts and declamations, confident and meaningless. People are reflected in mirrors as if in mirrors. Speech, the search for a reprimand, a faulty gait and problems with their legs. A small novel with pictures and so on. Gripmin's cat, probably bald, rustled in the bushes near the Belarus railway station for many years (some even heard him!). And suddenly he came out and solemnly went to the public toilet. Then only trouble, and after it sorrow, and so on and so on. The question: is it possible to give an exact answer? Again, this is another comedy about young people and not only.

Viktor Zhybul:

"The point around which the entire world of the novel "Significant Days" revolves is Belarus. That's the name of the railway station in the city of Zaslavl. There is an ordinary public toilet on it. In which quite unusual things happen. A point where the realistic and the fantastic intertwine. A conventional world inscribed in a specific topography. Reality that is not subject to "normal" description. Real and fictional characters. Intentionally "incorrect" language of the story. Non-normative syntax. Variable pace. Grotesque and hyperbole. Ghostly allusions. A narrator dissolved in the universe. People turned into Words. Even. Also. Hints, corrections and mockery of the "off-screen" commentator. Drawings and photographs as illustrations or... as a replacement for the text itself?.. Realism, surrealism, pointillism and a whole bunch of -isms in one bottle. Drawbridges to the avant-garde, the Renaissance and the punk. Timur Kudzelich's novel is about fear and bewilderment, hopelessness and glimmers of hope.   Real days. Happy days. Meaningful days. Rusty days.  Further inside, — Entrance.