Invicta, or the Main Error of Athanasius

"The Main Mistake of Afanasy" by Yugasi Kolyada is a journey into the absurd and at the same time touching zeros, where reality and memories intertwine in meta-prose. There is no true love here - only its illusions, which become weapons and revenge. The atmosphere of student life, resort Crimea, beer rivers and internal dramas makes this work a distinctive and sharp commentary on the era.

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In the book "The Main Mistake of Athanasius" there is no love at all, and its absence and illusory nature becomes the central theme. The atmosphere of the beginning of the absurd 21st century reigns in the work.

“It all started before the session… The lilac was blooming then…”

In your hands is not just “The Main Mistake of Athanasius” by Yugasi Kolyada, but a heartwarming adventure from the irretrievably wasted 2000s, where carefree student life, resort Crimea, rivers of beer, as well as gigabytes of love in its most diverse manifestations, which is most likely just a mirage, are woven into meta-prose. The author boldly turns warm memories into cold weapons, a form of revenge, and characters into Voodoo dolls.

“The heroines of Yugasi Kolyada are hyper-emotional individuals, for whom creativity is a way of letting off steam, a way of channeling excess energy into a socially acceptable channel. Fantasizing on paper for them is like bloodletting, which was once practiced by doctors, and “creativity” saves the heroines of the book from death and at the same time brings them back to life.”