In the present article Boris Ekimov's stories of the 2000th years which have made the collection "Saturday of Souls" are analyzed. The writer doesn't set as the purpose to recreate country Atlantis, and takes today of the village for granted in which there lives a person.

In article the concepts "life" and "daily occurrence" as raznoobjemny and occurring at different times are differentiated. Life is carried to sacral, it is one of life manifestations, daily occurrence assumes the appeal to private life of the ordinary person in the present, his inclusiveness in civilization use.

The research of the everyday life of characters of B. Ekimov allowing him to describe the current state of the village which is characterized by a redutsirovannost the bytiynykh of coordinates became the purpose of article. In the art world of the writer the deformed communications between people are shown, first of all, in transformation of an image of the owner and change of character of the neighbour's relations.