About the book: 2022 / Vladislav Vitalievich Govorikin, not Chekhov’s man in a case, but a modern Diogenes, looking for a man in himself, but at the same time incapable to spread his wings and break through the shell of a fictitious disease that painfully retarded his development. Having a deep attachment to his home and to his communist father, Vladislav cannot get used to moving to a foreign, unfamiliar city and the collapse of the usual structure of society - even if such a collapse occurs to a large extent only in his own imagination…