About the book: 2012 / "Everyone agrees that no book has ever generated as many diverse opinions as “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends.” And what is most remarkable, which has not happened, perhaps, before in any literature, is that the subject of discussion and criticism was not the book, but the author. Every word was examined with suspicion and distrust, and everyone vying with each other hurried to declare the source from which it came. That terrible anatomy was performed on the living body of a still living person, which makes even someone gifted with a strong build break into a cold sweat. However, astonishing and offensive as many of the conclusions and conclusions were for a noble and honest man, I steeled myself to the best of my little strength and decided to endure everything and take this opportunity as an instruction from above to look more strictly at myself.…»