About the book: 2015 / "...The thing is remarkable not so much because of the plot (however, the parable is strong, desperately hopeless), but because of the fact that it contains Your amazing gift for transmitting human voices was revealed in all its brilliance. The text gives the impression of a continuous stream of auditory hallucinations. In my opinion, no one owns such technology now. It’s not even technology, some people are so lucky. For example, Balzac in “Shagreen Skin”, in the feast scene...” (Samuel Lurie in a letter to Viktor Shenderovich)