Alan Lightman is a writer whose, relatively speaking, “novel” “Einstein's Dreams” created a true sensation all over the world. The genre of this work cannot be defined. The author, a famous physicist, precisely due to his, to put it mildly, unconventional perception of literature, managed to create something beyond the control of even the sophisticated avant-gardeism of Pavich, Marquez and Llosa. One day, “the average prosperous American” suddenly realized that he had COMPLETELY LOST MEMORY... Once upon a time, an ordinary “ teenager of the computer generation" suddenly witnessed the tragedy of the great philosopher of ancient Athens... Before you is a "two-layer" novel in which reality and phantasmagoria, tragedy and grotesque are easily and naturally intertwined into a single whole. You have never known THIS kind of Lightman. Read and find out!