On his twelfth birthday, the hero of the book, Karl, receives as a gift a book with blank pages, where he must write down the story of his life day after day, which, after his death, according to tradition, his son will read. But it so happened that the book disappeared, and the son again, for the second time, wrote the biography of his father, an extraordinary man, a passionate lover of books. His spiritual world is inextricably linked with the work of Villon, Stendhal, Diderot and other outstanding French writers of the past, and in real life he is a member of a group of avant-garde artists, ardent anti-fascists. Art and politics, sublime love and banal adultery, hopes and disappointments - all this is told in the novel with subtle irony and great skill. * * *Following the book “My Mother’s Lover”, the novel “My Father’s Diary” is published in Russia - the second part dilogy of the remarkable Swiss writer Urs Widmer. The author talks about a man whose life included art and politics, sublime feelings and banal adultery, hopes and disappointments. And most importantly, passionate love for women and literature.