“In Kharitonov’s artistic system, everyday life occupies an important place. It is written extremely carefully and is historically reliable, although for the author it is still only a background for posing deep existential questions... The unit of text becomes a paragraph that conveys a thought, action, motive and retains a logical connection within itself, but between the paragraphs there is emptiness, as well as between events, and in this structure is the author’s philosophy: truth does not belong to logic, which is often misleading, but to the integrity of being, from which, in fact, the spirit of life grows. Each paragraph seems to be born out of the darkness and requires a guess, a correlation not only with the plot, but with something larger - transtemporal and transpersonal.”E. Shklovsky