“This is how the day leaves us, leaves forever” - a new novel by the notorious writer, playwright, showman and honorary homosexual of Sweden Jonas Gardel. Gardel plays with myths and symbols of mass consciousness, showing that the fetishes of our everyday life are not actually filled makes no sense. The cause-and-effect relationship is broken: not because there are candlesticks everywhere because it’s Christmas, but because it’s Christmas because there are candlesticks everywhere. By placing the “little man” and his gray everyday life at the center of the story, the author gives a very accurate picture of the state of society. A trip to the video store and studying the contents of the refrigerator become as exciting an event as a murder in a detective story. The apocalyptic nature of what is happening is given by the age of the main characters - 33 years. Actually, the end of the world, which foreshadows the coming end of the millennium, has already happened. But no one noticed him: “The world turned upside down, but no one knew about it. Because there were no words to talk about it.”