Alice Munro is a contemporary Canadian writer, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The story "Forest", deceptively simple in form and embodiment, is the first and one of the few stories translated into Russian. Roy Fowler's existence is inextricably linked to land, its natural wealth, and its generosity. He is heard in his hometown of Logan (Ontario) as an eccentric and eccentric, he feels himself far away from people, alone with the forest thicket, which for him is both a source of daily bread and a source of genuine inspiration. The image of Roy Fowler is associated with the extremely essential for the national identity of Canada, the theme of the relationship of man with nature, today, as originally, saturated with acute drama.