Dmitry Raskin is a writer, poet, playwright, working at the intersection of literature and philosophy. His books are built on the principle of complementarity of philosophical and poetic texts. The novel “Chronicle of Paradise” combines philosophical reflection, poetics, irony, close, sometimes harsh psychologism. Professor Max Lotter and his two emigrant friends Meer Lekhtman and Nikolai Prokofiev meet every Friday in a restaurant and arrange somewhat strange games... However, are they games This? They are looking for what must be the ultimate meaning of existence, and this search completely captivates them. The heroes of the novel painfully peer into themselves in that spiritual situation where both the “meaning of life” and its “absurdity” have long become some kind of cliches. The intense, earnest desire of the heroes to resolve the fascinating problems of Nothingness and Being turns the space of the novel into a kind of testing ground on which our values and truths undergo a biased, sometimes merciless test. The novel is addressed to readers of intellectual prose who appreciate the metaphysical depth of the text and intellectual mystification.