The novel “Quicksand” became the last completed work of Alexander Zhitinsky. This book predicted with absolute accuracy the entire Russian social, political and cultural situation in the coming years, right down to religious strife. “Quicksand” is lyrical prose of amazing power, sad, precise, in the best traditions of St. Petersburg parable fiction. The publication also includes poems by Alexander Zhitinsky, which he wrote in his youth, then - occasionally - throughout his life, but refused to publish because he was a poet I didn’t consider myself. Meanwhile, many critics noticed that it was in his poetry that he truly revealed himself, telling perhaps the most important thing about the dreams, despair and painful degeneration of the sixties. Zhitinsky's poems are his secret diary, which has no equal in confessionality and sobriety.