Why? you ask. Im interested in looking at everything here from the Outside, from the Sky, not vice versa. It has been interesting since childhood (we all come from our childhood, and mine one is associated with many deaths), so my novels in the series Playing Another Reality are an attempt to understand earthly life, going beyond its framework and looking at it from the Outside, and at the same time to explore the Outside.
Thus, in ordinary detectives everyone is looking for a murderer and sooner or later finds him, and the reason of the murder is usually explained by the author in terms of logic of the human (!) mind, feelings, and emotions (desire for inheritance, revenge, envy, hatred, etc.).
However, in The Island the identity of the murderer does not matter much after all (although, of course, it will be revealed to the reader), and the real reason of the murder is unlikely to be correctly established even by the most experienced detective, it is known only to the Creator.
Why? you ask me again. Because this story is about something else It is about the Eternal and the Transient, the Dual Soul and the Divine Spirit, the thirst for Love and its likeness. It is about the search for the Real among phantoms and illusions. About the right of choice and predestination. About the fact that life is a constant movement forward, and about Hope that cannot be lost, even if everything is already behind because it only seems so!
Alexandra Kryuchkova,
Honored Writer
of the Moscow Сity Organization
of the Union of Writers of Russia,
laureate of international literary awards
http://cyclowiki.org/wiki/Крючкова_Александра_Андреевна
The magazine Literary Moscow/ Moskva literaturnaya No. 1, 2022.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XBB2GXM
https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/543235267/
https://ridero.ru/books/moskva_literaturnaya_1_2022/
The Little Princes Rose of the Universe
If it were possible to classify literature, then The Island of Charon by Alexandra Kryuchkova would be quite logical to put on the same shelf with The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The reverent attitude to the miracle of being and the models of interconnections, built from internal causes and stretched throughout the entire Universe, look similar in these authors, despite the difference in their initial circumstances and diametrically opposite endings.
Those critics who compare the prose of Alexandra Kryuchkova with Daniil Andreev are also right. The multitude of the worlds and parallel universes reflected in his Rose of the World could as well include the constructions found in her novel Confessions of a Ghost and in the story The Island of Charon. The power of logical dependencies, filigreed by Kryuchkova, makes these works no less plausible than the philosophical bestseller of the famous mystic.
Alexandra Kryuchkovas prose built an invisible bridge between two previously unconnected authors of the past. The Little Prince of Exupery took care of the rose, and the universal phenomenon of Daniil Andreev also turned out to be a rose, but for him it was already the Rose of the World. Taking up the relay race of generations, Alexandra Kryuchkova invisibly and delicately takes care of the very same rose.
Vadim Shiltsyn,
member of the Union of Writers of Russia,
laureate of literary awards
The newspaper Poetograd No. 4 (400), 2022.
http://www.poetograd.ru/arch.html
https://reading-hall.ru/publication.php?id=30662
A detective fairy tale for adults
You shouldnt be sure of anything, because everyone has his own island here, although not always it is an island, and not everywhere
Then, what is The Island by Alexandra Kryuchkova?
Is it a fairy tale for adults? Yes, sure. It is full of romance and sadness of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and of standing on the edge from Max Fry.
Is it a mystery detective? Undoubtedly. We see the classic dramaturgical slide, a three-act scheme, and it keeps you in suspense till the end.
Is it a love story? Its also true. The emotions hidden beneath the outward calmness of the main character are going wild! Until the last breath and even after it, she is looking for earthly love and cognizes reality (well, or non-reality, as you like) in a not rational, not linear way.
The Island of Charon by Alexandra Kryuchkova is variegated and multifaceted, but thats what makes it so remarkable! Besides, the brightest creative successes usually happen somewhere at the junction, and the genius manifests itself in something non-standard, going beyond the statistical average.
However, you shouldnt be sure of anything, because
everyone has his own island here!
Boris Mikhin,
member of the Union of Writers of Russia,
laureate of literary awards
The newspaper Poetograd No. 4 (400), 2022.
http://www.poetograd.ru/arch.html
https://reading-hall.ru/publication.php?id=30662
Magic captivity
(The Magic Captivity of Alexandra Kryuchkovas Prose)
I am holding in my hands a philosophical and mystical thriller The Island of Charon, which received several literary awards in 2021: Ocean, Wind, Sand and Stars after A. de Saint-Exupery (Open Literary Club Response), Another Reality after Leonid and Daniil Andreev (Creative Center Clouds of Inspiration), Running on the Waves after A. S. Grin (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia together with the Museums of A.S. Grin in Feodosia and Stary Krym), Case No. 2021 after Alfred Hitchcock and The Book of the XXI century in the nomination Wings after A. de Saint-Exupery (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia together with Non-commercial Partnership Literary Republic)1. However, Ive studied some reviews to decide whether to read it or not.
And I begin reading the book to the music from Christopher Nolans film Interstellar, which appears almost out of nowhere and sounds like a refrain on that very Island. I recreate the reality of events, because its to this music that the reader is about to learn how tender the embrace of even the most horrible death can be.
Everyone has his own island here
The music of the stars and planets places me to the space-time tunnel Island Island, one of them is in the Sun Book, and the other one is in the Moon Book. Christopher Nolan with his film crew beneath my windows of the hotel on Tatari Street in Tallinn, 2019, immediately came up to my mind. I was watching the process of making his new film Tenet from the inside.