Bora Cosic is an amazing Serbian writer, endowed with the greatest gift of words. He is the author of several dozen books, philosophical treatises, essays, and critical articles, which have been repeatedly translated into various languages. In the book “The Role of My Family in the World Revolution” and the novel “Mentors,” fragments of which are published in this volume, he tells the story of his family. Incredibly funny and lively family stories have deep philosophical implications. The author’s primary task is hidden in the words “to save this beautiful day from oblivion.” The magical stories of Bora Cosic save the days lived by his family for almost two centuries from oblivion, and as a result, a family saga, imbued with humor, becomes a clot of modern human history.