About the book: 2007 / "Thus Spoke Nikodimych" can with full confidence be called a "philosophical treatise", despite the deliberately colloquial language and fable style. The main character of the story, Nikodimych, who broadcasts his tales to the men in the yard, is a great cunning man - captivating him with the plot and accessibility of the language, he educates his listeners, bringing to them simple universal truths. And the men laugh at his fairy tales, and become thoughtful, and draw conclusions, and do not know that this is called philosophy.