Fireplace orgy

Is it possible to change fate, to influence reality? Is everything that happens to a person inevitable and predetermined, and, ultimately, why? The novel-parable by the outstanding Ukrainian writer is a rethinking of eternal history. About the chosen ones who are initiated into secret knowledge, and those who stand guard over science. The text within the text combines stories from different time layers: indefinite and long-lasting time, past and future, which invisibly flow into each other. This is the author's version of the life of the community of the first Christians after the crucifixion of Christ, even before the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire. But first of all, the drama of a woman's unrequited feelings for a man unfolds before us. A mature couple of an author of women's novels and a programmer is going through a family crisis. Twelve years ago, they also did not understand: what is really happening to them and why? The main characters seem to be in a mysterious and fatal connection with the otherworldly world of shadows, which they can neither break nor find the reasons for the key events of their lives. Just as Per Lagerkvist reinterpreted biblical plots, the writer seeks to answer the rhetorical questions of existence through her work: why and why did this happen to me? “I do not interfere in my work,” Lagerkvist answered. In contrast, Yevgenia Kononenko’s characters experience that even without interfering and only observing the event, we still interfere in the course of things. In the end, readers will independently unravel the miracles, symbols and signs of “The Stone Orgy”, allusions to world mythology, intertextual turns from works of world classics, in particular drama.