Mikhail Lipskerov’s work can only be described as a crazy whirlwind, spinning us in a stream of overlapping time periods, delusional fantasies of the hero, a mixture of the real and the imaginary. The delirium tremens that the main character, Maine, suffers from is not just a medical diagnosis, here it is the psychology of a mentally ill person skillfully shown by the author, and we just have to figure out where this is fiction and where is the truth.