About the book: 1988 / The book "The Peacock's Tail" amazes with its genre richness and diversity. There are voluminous stories, stories, parables, legends, miniatures, and anecdotes. Felix Krivin combines reality and dreams, truth and fiction, legend and allegory in his narrative. There are unusually strange characters at work here. They have learned to break away from earth's gravity; time for them is like space through which they travel freely. They are able to imagine, invent, “dream” any reality. Fantasy and laughter are inseparable in this book. The writer connects fantasy, paradox and irony together, creates a completely unprecedented, implausible, “impossible” plot and smiles at it himself. “The fireworks of humor resemble a peacock’s tail. A person makes jokes, causing the admiration of others. When this tail begins to whip left and right, humor becomes satire…».