About the book: 2015 / Despite all his breakdowns and failures, Furman really wanted to become a good person, lead a meaningful, properly organized life and benefit people. But, having returned home from Petrozavodsk at the end of the summer, he found himself at the same point as a year ago, after graduating from school - no work, no study, no definite plans... Only now even those from his Moscow company those who were a year younger became students... Alas, behind his passionate desire to “become a good person” there were too many confusing and painful experiences, so first of all he wanted to save himself from himself. In the four-volume autobiographical epic “The Book of Furman. The Story of One Presence”, the author first refutes the myth of “happy childhood” (“Land of Dissimilarity”), which turns out to be full of anxieties and bitter breakups, talks about Furman as a teenager, learning about himself and childishly playing “politics” (“Metamorphosis”) , and then shows how the consciousness of a strange, lonely 1970s teenager is captured by the great utopia of raising a new man ("Down the Rabbit Hole"). “The Demon and the Labyrinth” is the fourth part of “The Book of Furman.” This time the author immerses the reader in the vibrant intellectual life of late-Soviet Moscow. Dmitry Bykov called Furman “the Russian Proust.” According to Bykov, Furman very accurately describes the “unique generation” to which he himself belongs, “those who were 20 in 1985”: “It was a great time, semi-sectarian studio theaters, unpublished major poets with their audiences and adherents , a clearly outlined convergence that did not have to be realized... By convergence I understand not only rapprochement with the West, but also a certain blurring of the caste boundaries of Soviet society. Then all the processes became simpler, everything got mixed up, and instead of the subtle and complex, the coarse and material began. But Furman amazingly accurately and vividly described his stratum, the smart children of the eighties whom I knew and among whom I moved».