The most mysterious writer of all Nobel laureates, twice awarded the Booker Prize and never showing up for the award ceremony, dedicating his Nobel speech to none other than Robinson Crusoe, a man whose very name remained a mystery for a long time. “Dishonor” - perhaps the writer's main novel. The hero of the book, a university professor, loses literally everything because of a scandalous story with a student - both his job and the goodwill of society. The novel is a polemic, the writer's answer to the question once posed by Franz Kafka - to be or not to be a person if life has brought him down in the eyes of those around him to the state of an insect, whether he should become zero or start from scratch.