About the book: 2021 / The novel of the philosopher Lev Shestov and the poetess Varvara Malakhieva-Mirovich took place in the world of literature - conversations about Shakespeare, Kant, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky - and remained in letters to each other. The love story for Varvara Grigorievna, the difficult relationship with her sister Anastasia become a kind of prologue to Shestov’s “philosophy of tragedy” and shed light on what prompted him to existentialism , - historian and prose writer Natalya Gromova talks about this blank spot in the biography of the philosopher in her new book “An Otherworldly Friend”. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.