About the book: 2001 / New book by the famous essayist, critic, prose writer Alexander Goldstein (Anti-Booker Award for the book "Parting with Narcissus", UFO, 1997) - exciting a narrative that intricately combines masterfully written pictures of modern life, confessional, often shocking details from the author’s life and deep philosophical reflections on culture and art. Among the heroes of this unique intellectual novel are Yukio Mishima, Milan Kundera, Rabbi Nachman, Leonid Dobychin, Che Guevara, Yakov Golosovker, Mahatma Gandhi, Sasha Sokolov and others.