Biographies of classics who have recently left us are written, as a rule, by their apologists, generous with oil and extremely restrained when clearing the rubble of myths and clichés is required. However, Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev was lucky in this sense: he, like his associates, was not content with the superficial level of reality and always tried to look beyond it - and Eduard Lukoyanov, the author of the first critical biography of Mamleev, acted in the same way. Therefore, the main character of "The Father of the Connecting Rods" appears before us not as a monument to himself, but as a living person with all his shortcomings, obsessions and creative breakthroughs, and his strange retinue - as a community of eerie creatures who, whether we like it or not, have largely determined the features and character of modern Russian culture. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.