About the book: 2018 / The problem of theodicy (how to combine faith in an omnipotent and good Creator with the presence of suffering in the world) is overwhelming and terrible. It is this that is the main stumbling block on the path of many to faith. Since the time of Job, more and more generations of people, not out of a good life, dream of suing God, and the dispute between Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov, it seems, will never end as long as the world stands. A completely unexpected way out of this dispute, which life itself revealed to the heroes, forms the plot of Andrei Roshchektaev’s new story “The Supreme Mocker.” Real problems are not solved logically: a person simply gets out of them, grows up... as God willing, and for all of us!