The work of Tommaso Landolfi (1908-1979), whom critics unanimously single out as one of the key figures of world literature of the 20th century, a subtle master of psychological storytelling, an excellent essayist, translator of Pushkin and Tyutchev, Gogol and Dostoevsky, Leskov and Bunin, reflects spiritual drama European intelligentsia, the drama of disbelief in the meaning of life and the meaningfulness of the world order. The novel, stories, stories and plays from different years, included in the one-volume volume, present the reader with a rich palette of the master.