A novel about literature—unprecedented! A novel about mass literature—it’s business! A novel about the peaceful and even very happy cohabitation of obscene reading with the most serious, most immoral Literature with a capital L - also, perhaps, a well-known thing, we have heard and almost read somewhere. Nothing can seduce us, we know everything in advance, even better than in hindsight. So, the novel is about literature: about the inscrutable path of the book - from the end of the creative process to the reader, about the path that every society since the time of Guttenberg provides and arranges in its own way . Literature is a social phenomenon, and therefore appears to readers according to the laws and customs of such and such a society. Everything seems to be normal, but meanwhile, if you look closely, everything is absurd, wild, incongruous - either funny or monstrous...