Tadeusz Ruzewicz is a special phenomenon in modern Polish literature, its pride and glory. Almost every one of his works, regardless of genre, combines things that seem to be poorly compatible: deliberate everydayness of style and experimentation, emotionality and philosophy, pain for a person and undisguised irony in the description of human actions. In Russia, Ruzhevich is known much less than he deserves it; the last time his prose was published in Russian was more than a quarter of a century ago. This publication partially fills this gap. All works included in the book are published for the first time.