Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2007, pp 384
The writer praises his characters up to the skies for their lessons of freedom and joy in the midst of insanity of declining societies. And again, as his great teachers and predecessors in Russian literature before him, he reminds that light is born from suffering. And this is the best kind of resistance against all punitive ambitions of historical falsehood, a calm opposition to all political labor camps and evil deeds of boorish authority of the «overwhelming majority».
