“...The latest, autumn books of “thick” magazines delivered a lot of documents testifying to the reduced well-being of the “intelligent proletariat.” Let us focus our attention on three examples: we mean the stories: Ec. Letkova “Flies” (“Russian Wealth”, October), Alexander Kipenev “Meteorological Station” (ibid) and M. Artsybashev “Crazy” (“World of God”, November). The heroes of these works are extremely uninteresting characters, typical “gray people”, “selfish people”... They all experience the drama of “lonely people”, and on the basis of this drama flowers of pessimistic moods grow..."