About the book: 1983 / “Broken Life, or the Magic Horn of Oberon" is a book written on autobiographical material. Consisting of individual fragments of memories , it is united by a single artistic concept and recreates a harmoniously holistic picture of the life of the writer’s childhood years. And in this work by V. Kataev such features of his style as grotesqueness, lyricism, wit, observation, and concrete sensory perception of the world were revealed..