About the book: 2010 / Alexander Sharypov (1959–1997) is a unique author who will posthumously enter great literature. His works have been translated into German and English and awarded the Literary Prize. N. Leskova (1993), Pushkin scholarship of the Hamburg Alfred Tepfer Foundation (1995), Prize of the International Democracy Foundation (1996) “Alexander Sharypov’s style is seen most clearly through the optics of death, through the disastrous vanity and dimness in the dark the windows of the laser research center where the author worked, through the suicide of the hero in the now classic story “Bedbugs”, through the linguistic confusion of stories about Ilya Muromets and the mathematically verified fever of the story “The Murder of Koch”, and in general - through the airy eventlessness, similar to take inventory of everything that can, while reading, reconcile a person with chaos».