“It seems to me that Igor Kudryavtsev’s stories are about breakups. These stories were written at the end of the last - beginning of the new century. In those days, the living fabric of existence was torn almost everywhere. And in these stories, the breaking points are artistically convincingly recorded. Here a family quarrel is not a regular repair (Klyuchevsky), but a routine crash. Older people remember the inspiration of perestroika, which in fact turned out to be the drying up of the potential for alternativeness. There is no need to forget about this enthusiasm and subsequent devastation. We need to get rid of them. A writer, in order to free himself, needs to publish old things. The best thing in the book.” Alexander Bugrov