In a psychiatric hospital in a small provincial town of N. there is a patient who does not know his true name and is unable to look at his reflection in the mirror. Instead of his own face, he sees many fragments, which there is no way to put together. His situation is completely hopeless, and he, as is obvious to everyone, will be forced to remain in this house of sorrow until the end of his days. As an experiment, his attending physician, without hoping for any result, invites Victor K. (as the staff of the hospital calls the unfortunate man) to collect individual fragments of his life, writing them down on sheets of paper. The doctor hopes that, put together, these individual fragments may force Victor K. to remember who he really is and help him see his own face in the mirror. When there are quite a lot of separate sheets with records of various episodes from the life of Victor K., the attending physician, with the consent of the patient, decides to publish them as a separate brochure. But he does not realize that on the reverse side of these separate fragments of his life, Victor K. describes the story of a certain either real or fictional writer Isaac Oblomoff. An unsuspecting publisher publishes fragments of the life of Victor K. along with a biography of Isaac Oblomoff, and in the end he receives not a brochure, but a quite decent book, which he arbitrarily called “The Eternal Jew.” Victor K. gets the opportunity to look in the mirror and finally see his own face in it. He understands that this is the same writer Isaac Oblomoff, and not at all an unfortunate patient of a small provincial hospital. Everything is miraculously transformed, he becomes normal, and leaves the place of his long imprisonment. In general, the novel “The Eternal Jew” is a book about pain, despair, hopelessness, and about miraculous salvation, which one must always believe in, and which certainly comes to those who do not lose hope.