Worshipping the Lizard

The novel is a youth adventure story with elements of fantasy and mystic

 

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The novel is a youth adventure story with elements of fantasy and mystic. The action takes place in the country town Midni Buky (permanent toponymy of Deresh’s novels resembling

Yoknapatawpha County by Faulkner). The main character, a university student Mis’ko comes home for holiday. In the centre of the town there is a Hyacinth House — the former pension and now the abandoned place where homeless live about which somber legends and fabulous rumours are spread.

Idyllic vacation of Mis’ko and his hippy-friends Dzvinka and Fat Hippy has been spoiled by pathological fear of a guy Fedja who hates informal people according to the consistency of “a man with firm ideological principles of the skinhead”.

Dzvinka fell in love with Mis’ko. They together go hiking to the mountain lake. On the way back Dzvinka tells that Fedja tried to rape her, Fat Hippy stood up for her and Fedja took a dreadful revenge on him.

Mis’ko, Fat Hippy and Dzvinka decide to kill Fedja. They thoroughly plan the murder and come to a determination to kill him during the final prom. They decoy Fedja into the trap, kill him and sink his corps in the closest swamp.

They come back home and not only evade criminal penalty but even do not experience any remorse. So, in the end we have not only denouement but also the usual portion of Deresh’s irony. This time it concerns the cheap moralizing often encountered the genre pop-culture, especially in horror movies for teenagers.


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