About the book: 2019 / Mikhail Kharitonov’s novel is subtitled “inhuman comedy” - and indeed, the concept of the “Golden Key” is comparable in scale to the novel Balzac’s cycle, and with the great “Comedy” of Dante (which, as you know, was called divine only later by descendants). Here is a book that is fascinating, light, homerically funny, Rabelaisianly immoderate, topical, philosophical, provocative, crossing all taboos and violating everything conceivable boundaries - in a word, exactly the kind that only truly great books have. The book contains obscene language.