About the book: 2019 / It is unusual for modern man to repent for his misdeeds either before God or before people who, to keep within the framework of human passions, invented and improved the Law. It’s clear why: repentance disarms “reasonable bipeds” in their constant and uncompromising struggle for success in life, for their human dignity - the goods that are valued most dearly by everyone today. The story describes a case when a creature is unreasonable and dumb, defenseless before a person, his master and ruler, makes a reasonable and omnipotent person suffer, admit his actually involuntary guilt to the animal.