One of the cornerstone works of the literary collection "Anti Classics", Grushnitsky's almost dialogue-free novel "Pleasure is Punishment" poses the most important moral and ideological questions to the reader - about the existence of faith, the essence of conscience, physical sin and the atonement of this sin through suffering. Exploring the crazy mind-ghost, the ugly dream of love that takes hold of the mind of Roger Valentine in the coldest and most desolate city in the world, forms an important part of this short, multi-genre book. Conceived as a “novel in seven chapters,” Grushnitsky’s novel appears to the reader as an interesting artistic and philosophical study of the human principle, an atheistic comedy about the death and resurrection of the soul. Contains obscene language.