Very good, light and clear prose, with its subtle and precise intonation, with a correct understanding of the essential values of life. With that love (for life, for people, for Heaven), without which there is no art. Vladislav Otroshenko In the stories of Sergei Kumysh there are ordinary, in fact, even banal everyday collisions, told in ordinary, in fact, even banal words; In a strange way, however, this routine on the verge of banality gives birth to quiet, sad, but distinct music, read – magic. An explainable oddity, in fact. Kumysh has a clear and scrupulous writer’s optics; he peers into the everyday attentively and sympathetically, but also with almost religious respect for that huge secret that remains invisibly but undeniably in the ordinary, in the simple everyday life of human life even after the closest examination. Alexander Garros Writers always try to find a very precise and correct word, or come up with their own, or come up with an unexpected combination of words that will then take your breath away. Some linguistic detail that no one had noticed before, but Nabokov, for example, took it and noticed it, and brought it to light. And then Kumysh takes it and abandons this task, choosing the most mediocre, most unexpected words, even erased, faceless ones. And this erasure and facelessness suddenly becomes a very strong artistic device. Zhenya Berkovich