Summary “Searching for a genre”
Pavel Durov, who is an artist of the original genre, spent the night on the penalty area of the traffic police in a provincial town. On his Zhiguli “ZIL” – pulled Bumper. Stay somewhere for the night Durovu simply nowhere. Durov reflects on why he travels throughout the country for no significant reason, he feels that he is losing his grooves, losing his place in life and feeling the need for a genre. He can not understand in any way: he is holding onto the right to be the creator of miracles or shy of his genre. The thing is that he absolutely does not know whether miracles are necessary for someone.
Durov listened to the conversations of the dead who were victims of the accident and gathered in the penalty area at night, and wants to find out from them: what is going on there and where do they actually come from? However, one of the dead answers him sadly, that this is actually not his business. The dormant Durov falls asleep, and he had a dream. He saw
When Durov woke up and fixed the car, he decides to continue his journey. Not far from Feodosia, he took with him several fellow travelers, one of whom was the seller of beer Filipuk Alla, who was looking for her beloved Soloveikin Nikolai. Alla tries to convince herself by all methods that for love it is necessary to live with the same interests with a loved one and feel respect for him, at the end of her journey she confesses that Kolka’s parasite could make her a real woman and that’s why she is so to it aspires. Changing the route of his direction, Durov drove Alla to the ferry and swam with her to Novorossiysk through the Kerch Strait. There, Alla found a not very important Kolya, who was sitting on the deck and sharpening the chisel with dredges. This supposedly gave him the opportunity to determine his strengths. After he spent the night of love with Alla,
Another fellow traveler Durova – Maman, who sits in his car near Velikiye Luki and tells that he is going to his daughter Zina in the Novgorod region,
When Durov woke up after a love and drunken stormy night, he felt that something was very near, but had not yet come to pass. But still he was happy, because he was ready to print bags of props.
Durov met Alexei Kharitonov on his way to the south. The one on his Muscovite, who himself had collected them, from Tyumen to the Crimea, was taking his big family for the fifteenth day. Their entire family, including mother-in-law, believes that it will achieve its goal, no matter what. But suddenly, Moskvich refuses to brake and the car is in a ditch. Durov drove past them on the new Zhiguli, but soon he himself was almost a victim of a catastrophe. Then he returned to the scene of the Kharitonov incident, took his entire family to his car and drove to the sea in Koktebel. Meanwhile, Durova is waiting in Golden Sands in a cheap hotel of his colleague, artists of a dying genre. They agreed to rest together, not to mention the work of a word. However, Durov does not hurry to them, because he understands that they can not avoid talking about the fact that the genre runs off from under the wheels.
In a small town the Baltic Durov was mistaken for a counterfeiter, as he was everywhere paying with new banknotes, just like those made by a true counterfeiter. Durov actually received this money for staging a sports event. He decides to justify himself by presenting gifts in the form of notes to unknown newlyweds from the local factory. When he gets out of the wedding, on the way he meets his employee, an inseparable former friend Sashka. He learns that Sashka is exactly the counterfeiter, for whom Durov was accepted. In the former illusionist, Sasha made fake money from despair. Hearing the story of Durov about travel in the search for a genre, Sasha burns all the available fake bills and, slightly conjuring, removes from circulation those that have already put into circulation.
The next passenger of Durov is Arkadius, a young hippy. He dropped the school, did not join the army because of flat feet. At the moment, Arkadius is going to leave for Moscow in order to see the “Mona Lisa”, which is located there from Japan to Paris. Arkadius pays Durov travel poetry, which he himself composed. These were poems about a theater without a roof and walls, broken on a village street by fourteen idlers and Captain Ivan. Suddenly Durov realized that the fifteen that are mentioned in this poem are himself and all his colleagues in the genre. Durov gives in to a fleeting impulse, leaves for the Valley, where a miracle must actually happen.
Illusionists Bruce, Kenzaburo, Vaclav, Alexander, Guillaume, Evsei, Dieter, Jean-Claude, Mahmoud, Zbigniew, Oscar, Norman and Luigi gathered in the mountains near the camps of glaciologists. All of them over the years have experienced happiness in love, who drowned, who perished, who swam, who climbed out, who were depressed and furious in despair, but no one dared to betray youth for money, no one could gain cruelty, swinishness and impudence on the journey.
Glaciologists left the camp, as an avalanche is expected to occur. But the illusionists decided to turn this Valley into a kind of valley of miracles and for this purpose they are to deploy their requisites: the Avatar Barrel, the Powder Thread of the Future, the Generator As Like, the Hoses of the Past, the Echo Plates and so on. Three tremendous avalanches sweep the magicians together with their miracles.
Arkadius rages when he gets to Moscow: it so happens that the long-awaited meeting with Mona Lisa will happen not one by one, but in the crowd of people. This inspired him to the idea that the present world has thus presented another mess. But suddenly, as he peered into the picture, Mona Lisa raised her hand, covering her smile, and Arkadius saw her hand – this is exactly the happiness and miracle that he needed in life.
Still it is not known what happened in the lava, but that same night Durov and his comrades found themselves on an avalanche surface. Their requisites have been destroyed, and now they are deprived of feelings and memories. But they saw in the distance a different valley and realized that it was she who was the very true Valley to which they all so rushed. They were surrounded by love air, a miracle of trees, lakes, night luminaries, flowers and grass was seen before their eyes. Friends behind a miracle of a lion go deep into the Valley and prepare themselves for new miracles.