A new work for the Russian-speaking reader by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, the author of the novels “The Pianist” and “Greed”, which literally excited the world. When you first meet Jelinek, you shudder, then you wait for this meeting, and finally you simply need to hear her a tough but fair sentence. Jelinek literally dissects our reality, and does it so sophisticatedly that it forces us to admit what we would so much like not to notice. It is not nature itself and its perfection that became the topic of this book, but those “business people” who destroy nature for their own benefit. It was against them that Jelinek directed all the wealth of her language, full of caustic, one might even say poisonous, force. Perhaps this is an attack on a certain coalition that now exists between the so-called “forest defenders” and those who actually own these forests. This work is by no means a cute artistic handicraft that does not add or subtract anything. In it, one thing leads to another and everything is connected to everything. This is the mechanism of human life. “Jelinek is literally an artist of words, a master of a hitherto unprecedented scale. Her linguistic fantasies are amazing. In comparison with Jelinek, many of her fellow writers look like naive college girls.”