“In a way unknown to me” is, of course, a quote from Kharms; the complete phrase reads like this: “So life has defeated death in a way unknown to me.” I don’t know if everyone remembers that these words are uttered by a man with a thin neck, who “climbed into the chest, closed the lid behind him and began to choke.” And then I found myself lying on the floor. The chest was nowhere to be found. The chest has disappeared! All the stories in the book are about this. Well, or for this. So that all these chests of yours disappear, one by one. The story “Forty-third” was published in the collection “Nada”, the story “The Head and the Lyre Floated on the Hebru” was published in the collection “Cards on the Table”, it was absolutely impossible to do without them, very The quality of these stories makes the chests disappear. The remaining texts are published for the first time.