About the book: 1978 / For the first time - into the gas. “Literary Front” (1970, No. 37). The story was conceived in 1961, when the first two chapters were written, which were subsequently destroyed by the author. In 1970, Stanev resumed work on it and completed it in just six days. The writer formulated the idea of ​​the story as follows: a man “all his life he hated the wolf cub in himself, but he couldn’t live without him. Will the old man be able to kill the wolf within himself? At the last moment he shoots at the beast standing on his threshold, but it is unknown whether he was killed.” For the first time in Russian.