About the book: year / "Ivan Karamazov, sitting in a nasty tavern, says to his brother Alyosha: “...how are Russian boys still operating? Are there others? For example, there’s a stinking tavern here, so they come together and sit in the corner. All their lives they didn’t know each other before, but when they leave the tavern, they won’t know each other again for forty years, so what, what will they talk about while they caught a moment in the tavern? About world questions, no less: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who don’t believe in God, well, those will talk about socialism and anarchism, about remaking all of humanity according to a new state, but it’s the same damn thing, all the same questions, only from the other end. And many, many of the most original Russian boys do nothing but talk about eternal questions in our time. Isn't that right? - “Yes, - real Russian questions about: is there a God and is there immortality, or, as you say, questions from the other end, of course, the first questions and above all, and that’s how it should be,” he answered this Alyosha…»