Daniel Kluger has written a fascinating book about the prototypes of famous literary characters - controversial, but extremely interesting. The choice of his characters is wide - Captain Nemo and Benya Krik, Count Dracula and Hercule Poirot, Baron Munchausen and Doctor Faust, Golem and Edmond Dantes, Citizen Koreiko and Doctor Blood... Having collected their biographies - and the biographies of their prototypes - under one cover and moreover - in a single text, Kluger was able to tell a lot of interesting things along the way. “The Mystery of Captain Nemo” is a kind of literary investigation in which readers participate together with the author.