This novel by one of the greatest writers of modern Sweden, Per Olov Enkvist (born in 1934), is brought to the attention of readers. It examines questions that have occupied the human mind at all times: what is a person, what is he like and what is his purpose here on Earth. The action in “Captain Nemo’s Library” develops, as it were, on three levels: biblical stories and elements of fantasy are woven into the actual event outline of the work, where the main character talks about himself, his childhood, and the people who surrounded him and shared his bitter fate with him. .