Dmitry Lipskerov is a writer with an unbridled imagination and an impeccable sense of style. Author of more than 25 prose works, including the novels “Forty Years of Changzhoue” (Russian Booker shortlist, Literary Heritage Award), “Leonid Will Definitely Die,” “The Theory of a Boy Who Pesed,” and the collection of short stories “Bullfinch Meat.” The founder of the literary awards “Debut” and “Neformat”, he himself is “neformat” in his prose. The hero of the new novel “About Him and About Butterflies”, by the will of the author’s rich imagination, finds himself in a very delicate and absolutely Gogolian situation. It is with her that events begin that turn the whole world upside down, in which roguish and wise characters, angels and ordinary people, weave the fate of the universe.