The nameless hero of S. Igov’s novel “Deer” is not alone in world literature. Goethe's Werther; Treplev from Chekhov's The Seagull; “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald... The story of the incompatibility of an illusory dream and “a millennium in the yard” is many-sided and endless. Another similar story, presented in a very original way, forms the content of the novel. “That incomprehensible horror that I experienced last summer seemed to me <...> a sign that a person cannot hide anywhere from the real horror of reality,” says his hero. "That's life, boy. Be strong!’” Old man Jordan answers him. It’s easy to say, but how?.. The nameless hero of the novel “Deer”, who senses the fragility of beauty and the beauty of fragility with such stunning acuteness, did not succeed.