Ovadiy Gertsovich Savich (1896–1967) is better known to the general reader as a translator of Spanish, Chilean, Cuban, Mexican, and Colombian poetry. “The Imaginary Interlocutor” was published for the only time in 1928. The novel is filled with man's surprise at the hidden power of his soul. This is a longing for the unfulfilled, for the diversity of life, “for a high goal, without which life is empty and insignificant.”