The autobiographical story of the St. Petersburg writer Valery Popov “Sometimes It Flashes” was first published in 1991. A look turned back, to the past and to oneself, the look of a person who not only has an amazing memory for impressions, fleeting sensations, but is also able to trace their influence on character and destiny, who knows how to self-ironically and cheerfully talk about being a school outcast, about failures and the search for one’s own. "I".